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Mastering the Art of Being a Podcast Guest Jessica Rhodes 0
Aug 31, 2016

Mastering the Art of Being a Podcast Guest Jessica Rhodes

@jessrhodesbiz

www.interviewconnections.com

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Hollywood Secrets for Public Speaking with Laurie Burton 0
Aug 30, 2016

Hollywood Secrets for Public Speaking with Laurie Burton

www.laurieburtontraining.com

Presenting You: Use Skills from the Actor's Playbook to Master the Art of Communication

 

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What are the Real Secrets to TED Talk Story Telling Akash Karia 0
Aug 29, 2016

What are the Real Secrets to TED Talk Story Telling Akash Karia

www.akashkaria.com

 

 "The Habit Project": http://viewbook.at/habit-project

Akash Karia is a public speaking and storytelling consultant who has trained over 120,000 people worldwide, from bankers in Hong Kong to top salespeople in Switzerland to government members in Dubai.

He has twice been ranked the #1 Most Popular Business & Money author on Amazon Kindle and his books have been translated into Italian, Korean and Japanese. He is the author of the bestselling book, 23 Storytelling Techniques from TED Talks. When he is not busy writing about himself in third person, Akash can be found lifting heavy weights at the gym while listening to Taylor Swift.

Book: http://viewbook.at/tedstory

 

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Weekend Edition - Lochte, Trump, Hillary and More 0
Aug 27, 2016

Weekend Edition - Lochte, Trump, Hillary and More

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Developing a Pitch Investors Can't Say No to - John Livesay 0
Aug 26, 2016

Developing a Pitch Investors Can't Say No to - John Livesay

www.johnlivesay.com

The Successful Pitch: Conversations On Going From Invisible To Investable

https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=0_m3YgeQKQY

 

The Successful Pitch podcast

 

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The Presentation Summit w Rick Altman 0
Aug 25, 2016

The Presentation Summit w Rick Altman

http://www.presentationsummit.com

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Media Training the New Zealand Way - Pete Burdon 0
Aug 24, 2016

Media Training the New Zealand Way - Pete Burdon

https://www.mediatrainingnz.co.nz/

Media Training for Modern Leaders

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How Green Communicators Work - Shel Horowitz 0
Aug 23, 2016

How Green Communicators Work - Shel Horowitz

Guerrilla Marketing to Heal the World

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The Art of Small Talk with Don Gabor 0
Aug 22, 2016

The Art of Small Talk with Don Gabor

How to Start a Conversation and Make Friends

https://www.amazon.com/How-Start-Conversation-Make-Friends-ebook/dp/B004DI7TQI/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1471464217&sr=8-1#nav-subnav

 

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Weekend Edition Trump, Lochte in the News, Your Questions 0
Aug 20, 2016

Weekend Edition Trump, Lochte in the New, Your Questions

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Kerry Lutz On Turning Passion Into an Actual Podcasting Businesss 0
Aug 19, 2016

Kerry Lutz On Turning Passion Into an Actual Podcasting Business

http://financialsurvivalnetwork.com/about/

Kerry Lutz is the author of Viral Podcasting, coming soon on Amazon.

 

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How Military Leaders Speak to the Media - Jay Saunders 0
Aug 18, 2016

How Military Leaders Speak to the Media - Jay Saunders

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Voice and Accent Expert Patrick Munoz 0
Aug 17, 2016

Ep 225 Voice and Accent Expert Patrick Munoz August 12, 2016

Go to www.patrickmunoz.com or www.patrickmunoz.com/accent-american

Below is a time-coded transcript of the interview:

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is it really possible to change your accent to change your tone of voice
0:12
speaking the show about effective speaking in public to the media
0:20
at work and in life
0:24
speaking with TJ Walker
0:29
the first thing I do it every media training or presentation training is
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record people speaking and add them listen to it and make notations of what
0:38
do they like what do they not like it's frankly rare that people don't dislike
0:44
their voice they don't like their tone of voice
0:48
they don't like how it sounds nasal quality you name it
0:53
people don't like their voices now I've always caution them up
0:59
time out your voice isn't that bad let's focus on actually saying something
1:03
interesting
1:04
that's relatively an easy problem to solve
1:07
vocal problems accent issues can be hard and difficult but they can be worked on
1:14
they can be improved my guest today is an expert i'm not an expert on changing
1:19
people's accent changing their vocal qualities my expert
1:23
my guest today is an expert on that let's dive right into the interview in
1:28
just a moment but remember as always we take all of your questions here at
1:33
speaking with TJ Walker any questions to do with public speaking speaking to the
1:37
media crisis communications i used to do is send them to me
1:40
TJ at media training worldwide com or on twitter at TJ Walker now let's hop into
1:48
my conversation with Patrick Munoz expert out in Hollywood he's trained
1:52
some of the top stars and he has a new book out I wanted to bring to your
1:56
attention
1:57
it's called accent American the complete guide to speaking the standard American
2:03
accent Patrick thanks for joining us SI je veux having me i'm excited to Peter
2:07
and talk to you
2:08
I've had clients over the air say TJ I want to change my accent I'm really
2:13
worried about it
2:15
my standard advice has been
2:17
focus on having an interesting speech first and as long as people can
2:24
understand you
2:26
that's the bigger issue but there are some people who let's face it or just
2:31
hard to understand they need to get better
2:33
how do you start with them for those people who are it is very difficult to
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understand
2:39
yes first off I just want to kind of piggyback on what you said which is
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completely true as far as accents go
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I think the richness of accents the richness of different sounds of the way
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people carry wear it with their experiences whether from hugely helps
2:58
the interestingness of people put the easy way to say that is having an accent
3:03
and a great thing
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however there are people who are so kind of encumbered by the accent that they
3:12
have to just attack those sounds are giving them the biggest trouble
3:17
so what I'd like to do is just we always do a diagnostic in the first lesson I go
3:22
through talk to them even if you please to read the the course contract and then
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what I do is make all those marks about the sounds they have to work on and will
3:33
we have time we really kind of go through all the sound so they can see
3:36
what their accent is and then what is the standard American accent is and
3:41
start to incorporate that
3:42
however we were they want to have to do a triage thing right so it's it if if it
3:47
is there is really this difficulty in being understood
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we just go right to those sounds practice them I show them how to make
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the sound for instance of an L sound at the end of a word or we're saying the
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word fall or well and they're there they're not making a full actually
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saying fall
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well and they're not touching their tongue I show them what to do i get the
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mirror out and say look yourself in the in the mirror and look at mine now
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repeat those sounds over and over again and then we'll put them right in the
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tongue twisters will take phrases that they need to work on
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look at the book will do those exercises
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and that's the easiest way to get them to feel comfortable and confident in
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knowing how to make the sound because really some people as they you know
4:32
maybe english as a second language of the different parts of the country they
4:37
have done a really good job of doing the sound reproduction on their own kind of
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hearing it and they're connected like this and like guessing you're doing a
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great naturally but we'd like to do is get it was really specific and they go
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oh I see this is what you do this is how I do it
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repetition repetition practice 5-10 minutes a day and they're starting to
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speak way better
4:59
how much is the ability to have a neutral accent or any sort of accent you
5:04
want a function of having a so-called good ear the way you think of a great
5:08
musician and how much of it is simply the discipline of working placing your
5:15
tongue in the right place recording yourself is something anyone can do they
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are motivated the ear of ability that god-given ability that you're here can
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hear things that you're able to imitate things
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- ooh child I just huge and it can be like that case for those of us who is
5:33
here or is is good but we are not quite sure
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it takes some time anybody if they work at it and they have an open mind and
5:44
they spend five to ten minutes a day were really addressing it on their own
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because we can work for you are a 50-minute session but they were going to
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every day
5:52
anybody can get better now or more standardized accents
5:57
then again we have the range of people who coming from other countries that are
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are the actions are so strong
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anybody can get better but it really the gift is if you have an ear for however
6:10
just kind of rigorously going at it looking at it kind of like a
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mathematical equation or like going to the gym and doing that same repetition
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of a pull-up or push up and all of us if you have the muscles
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it's the same thing for the musculature of your mouth so anybody can do it in
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terms of the end result anybody's going to get better
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some people are able to like concrete fully some people have a huge jump in
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there understand it
6:36
the intelligibility of the accent and for them even the rewards that they get
6:41
in terms of their own local power there sounds are going to pay back off and
6:46
work and their personal relationships and their overall confidence in life so
6:51
good question
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definitely that the ear is is key and people who can work on it get better
6:58
in a moment I want to dive a little deeper and going to some of the
7:02
nitty-gritty of your book accent American the complete guide to speaking
7:07
the standard American accent but I have to help him with something else sooner
7:11
when friends and family of mine found out i was interviewing you and some of
7:16
your top Hollywood clientele they said you've got to ask him why is it a so
7:22
called movie star like Matthew McConaughey always sounds like Matthew
7:27
McConaughey Arnold Schwarzenegger always sounds like Arnold Schwarzenegger aren't
7:33
there enough actors in Hollywood who can do any accent that producers don't
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expletive rely on people who can't seem to
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I won't say can't act but can't do any X and other than their own
7:45
well there you go into the years it's kind of celebrity versus the actor as a
7:51
craftsperson so you have actors who let the Australian actors hugh jackman you
7:58
Lori or American actors male street
8:03
all you can do is that they can do anything they care they really actors
8:09
their stars and and yes and Marilyn was a celebrity celebrity star actor but
8:14
those are we have this celebrities imagine McConaughey
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he pretty much keeps to his Texas accent is that a function of just laziness he
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doesn't want to learn or is it that what Meryl street does is so wildly difficult
8:30
that even if he spent 10 hours a day he wouldn't get any better at got a good
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question
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so Matthew McConaughey I don't know I don't know I've never worked with him
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it works for surely doesn't suit him and he certainly does do things for the
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roller he is an actor in heat is the way that he
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this is for the Dallas 40 Dallas Dallas club dallas buyers club that is amazing
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he's an amazing actor he does tend to kind of keep the range speech wise and
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arnold schwarzenegger and we can do anything or he cares about it
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I know I had that we cruise one of my clients and I don't think for her
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it matters in the end so much you really wanted to work on it but it's about that
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kind of what each person kind of feels as a port for themselves like what is it
9:18
for her it was important but at a certain point I think she just wanted to
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get her voice to be stronger which actually after we work together
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one other reviews of the new york times for films was from her tone is stronger
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voice is stronger but it really is interesting TJ that actors
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some actors that's who they are that you're going to see that by the same
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part in every role
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that's who they are Cary Grant always had is no English accent and whatever
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role he was in and you made it happen for himself so it is a kind of thing
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like this is who I am this is I'm going to be every role and that's what I bring
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to my character and there's some actors who are like I'm gonna be a leonardo
10:01
dicaprio and I'm gonna work with Tim demonic and i'm going to have a
10:04
different accent
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each of my roles and that's part of it so really is kind of their own sort of
10:09
sense and other actors to play the role that would have the off the authentic
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accent um yes there are but we need people who are usually people who have
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names
10:19
get out there so the advice to actors who are my advice and actors I was an
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actor to actors who are in their in their formative years or even you going
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on in the in their career they have the ability to change when I think most
10:35
actors wanted to do it because they're excited to play different characters so
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if you could only do one accent then you kind of limiting limiting yourself and
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if you can do all kinds of accent and then make it not be about the exit
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they could be about the connection you have as a character to the other person
10:50
into this telling of the story that you're in great shape
10:54
let's switch gears away from Hollywood let's imagine that someone is let's say
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I've become
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executive whether they are from the south from the Northeast but they are
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professional person they are well educated but they're self-conscious
11:10
about having their southern accent an outer borough in New York accent of
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Brooklyn New Jersey accent they want to soften the edges and get to the point
11:23
where people can't really tell where they're from
11:26
how do they use your book how do they work with someone like you to get to
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that point
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perfect so in the book and it's an American you just open it up and you
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start to do the exercises that are in the warm up so it starts off as very
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organized it simple
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even I didn't purposely is a very thin book so it's kinda like a primer or a
11:48
primer everyone to say that but it really get you started in first of all
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developing your voice
11:54
I have a lot of executives all authors founders of organizations companies and
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people who are really successful and they know a lot and so it's at a certain
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level DJ you know you're you you coach people in public speaking is you said
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just have this have your message be important to have the speech be
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important
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haven't you are saying you have a passion for them so for a lot of my
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people come to me
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they want to work on the accident they want to work on their intelligibility
12:27
they want to work on the power of your voice
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so what you do is you start with the book open up and start and this is how
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to use the workbook and basically it says I'm how to use the workbook go get
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some simple things by opening your mouth more than you're used to practice
12:43
speaking in a flowing way and but the big thing you identify which sounds need
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improvement and put your focus on those
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so what you'll do first of all is go through the first section of the book
12:56
which are warming up your voice articulation exercises tongue twisters
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so you feel confident in your speech you feel really like you have more power in
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your voice
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then you go through
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you and I but those sound under for yourself
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I do consultations on that with people online and i'll give them a rundown of
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what the sounds are they need to focus on and then download the audio from the
13:22
book which is included in the purchase of the book and start to go over those
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sounds when your headphones on or just dropping it on your on your desktop
13:32
get your iphone or your smart phone out and record yourself repeating after you
13:38
hear my voice and then go back and say because that's the important part
13:42
oftentimes our ear doesn't hear the way we're talking when we hear objectively
13:48
on the iphone on the smartphone and you can hear yourself in relation with your
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hearing for me and you can say oh this whole time I thought I was saying Phil
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but I was saying fail feel
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oh I need to say Phil Phil feel and give yourself some time again 10 minutes and
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eight is going to practice to get those sounds in your mind and say like oh it's
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that single sound it as in fill that I met that I tend to go feel if I can just
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remember as I read through this going through these single vowel cells
14:20
it's phil is a single vowel sound there is no movement at all go from saying
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this diphthong feel to fill and that's what you do
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and then there's also some work in there four sentences apologize for
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interrupting but I have to ask you for one trainer to another large part of our
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audience trainers people in public relations fields who are working with
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executives who are self-conscious about their accent issues
14:49
what percentage of people will actually record and listen to their own voice on
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their own if you're not there standing over there because that's the bane of my
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existence
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I can help people all day long become better speakers better media
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communicators
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what I'm they are in the room I don't give them the option i recorded play it
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back
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we do that a dozen times but when i try to encourage people to go to my own
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online programs public speaking I always say
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record yourself speaking
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uploaded here far far fewer than not one percent but . one percent of students
15:30
ever do that so I'm just wondering if you have a better track record
15:33
I can't say that I do i can think about myself when I took piano lessons
15:39
so it's okay i was a kid and then to break from one with the back in my
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thirties
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I started as the train again and piano and I was always the same story
15:50
same story DJ ok so I'm seeing him wednesday is my daily day for my daily
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weekly a weekday study so we do it wednesday
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like I am motivated i'm going to practice the next day Thursday
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oh I have to go do hiking I have to go do some work here I coaching saturday
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sunday i got plans for 10 minutes
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yes follow through is super difficult and especially about getting the
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feedback
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so what I do most of my clients especially clients to get the best
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results are the ones probably this is yourself
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are the ones that I see every week and as far as how many people are actually
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doing the work
16:30
some people are hard workers are so motivated never
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it's interesting they are like tight days they're gonna they're going to work
16:37
on this other people are Taipei's don't have the time or the discipline
16:42
so in answer to your question I couldn't give you a statistic I can say that it
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makes the heck of a lot easier
16:50
I know for myself TJ in terms of doing my business
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I am an assistant come once a week for five hours
16:57
we focus I need somebody I admit I need somebody to coach me and that's what I'd
17:03
like to provide for the people so in terms of them doing it on their own
17:07
mmm
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you need to get somebody whether it's me whether it's you or voice for
17:13
particularly for this for the band's not me I definitely can access into the
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world
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I do have clients ask about it from time to time
17:27
here's my experience about a third of my clients they come in for a day of public
17:32
speaking training or media training
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I always record them first ask them what they like and don't like
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i would say about a third of my clients which is fairly representative of your
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professional successful population about a third of people hate their voice think
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that their voice is dramatically substandard whereas in all the years
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I've done this more than 30 years probably 10,000 clients
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I really only remember one client who truly had an awful awful voice I always
18:07
tell people that you may disagree i'd like to hear your opinion
18:11
it's basically three types of voices in the world here's the top point 0 0 1
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percent with her voice is so distinctive so melodias so pleasing that they can
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roll out of bed at noon tape a voiceover commercial get a million-dollar check
18:27
and go back to bed or go to the beach
18:29
there's the bottom . 0001 percent of people their voice is so irritating
18:35
awful screechie people rather jump out a window and have to listen to them and
18:41
then there's the other 99.999% where our voices aren't so fantastic people are
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going to give us money
18:48
it's not so awful people are going to leave the room they're just voices that
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help us communicate
18:53
i'm interested in your own take of those those two perspectives your perspective
18:58
of your clients how they rate their own voices and then how you rate that
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spectrum of great
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normal and awful i love it so in terms of how they write their own voices
19:10
because i'm a voice and speech Trojan because many bytes coming to me for
19:13
beyond just the accent work coming for local power things like that
19:19
a lot of people come to me that a lot me think what i say i would say about
19:25
thirty percent of my clients who come to me telling me they don't like the sound
19:29
of their own boys
19:31
I say listen you actually have a really nice boys and sometimes it's because
19:36
there's tension there's tension that they just let it relax all of a sudden
19:41
they get this kind of comfort so in terms of the people being people who
19:47
come to me and to be a little bit harder on their the cell phones because for
19:53
whatever reason it's feedback that we've gotten from the world from our teachers
19:58
our parents have one student whose brother is a is a speech pathologist and
20:06
kind of always gave her our time I have another about her voice I'm like well
20:11
did you ever help you know
20:13
so we get these these these loops for ourselves and even for myself TJ I when
20:21
I was growing up i don't know i think that my voice was nice
20:25
my speech I can still start to go so fast that's where my natural places to
20:29
go so fast and so by doing all these exercises over the years again like you
20:34
30 years of doing work at a time
20:36
I've got control about my voice so i would say many people come to me are
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more critical of their voice
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then they need to be but I would tell them to be and as a professional you and
20:48
I you we can say to them
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your voice is great embrace it embrace it but i think what has so that's that's
20:56
the one part the answer the same question
20:59
I totally agree with the point n % about the people being is wonderful melodious
21:04
voice they walk out you go wow you every once in a while you could I just think
21:07
oh my god and they do they said oftentimes they're not actors they'll
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say you know what so much BTW i should do something about my voice of them
21:16
well yeah you should but it is a naturally to natural attractor
21:21
it's great so that's that as far as most people I think their voices were pretty
21:25
well i would give a much higher percentage of
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people who use their voice to their disadvantage to the disadvantage
21:35
now that would be amazing voices or nasal and that kind of my type voice
21:41
that boys are kind of high pitch is coming right from the throat
21:45
the people who are very quiet
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I was a good by Tyson and pressure haha very quiet
21:53
can't be any and and there again all of these things like psychological
22:00
ramifications
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not from me but from the other person so if you're speaking very loudly does in a
22:07
way in the kind of obvious away kind of commands attention
22:10
you have to really screwed into listen to somebody that's a little bit tiring
22:14
in terms of why I just been talking to somebody this weekend when I was a
22:17
little vacation and they spoke in that manner and I was a man I put so much
22:21
effort into it
22:22
I was tired of that I don't really want to talk to this person any more of this
22:25
is taking too much ever
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it wasn't somebody was a good friend and i guess i would say could you speak up
22:30
but that is that one of the cases too lightly on to that a lot of people out
22:37
here you're in New York two different situation but in California we have a
22:41
lot of good women young women who have that Kardashian phase
22:47
it's called her vocal fry for me it was like an old man but they're always kind
22:51
of goes like there when they finish the sentence to his hands off so i would
22:56
really rate
22:57
yeah i'm going to take your kind but i think most of your clients are huge
23:01
pj our public speakers so already there at the level that the voice is coming to
23:07
their consciousness consciousness and they want to get better now this part of
23:12
putting all in the frame a painting the picture for me
23:15
I noticed just in the and the number of people i run into on the street people
23:20
making my clients the overall listening on TV that there is a high percentage of
23:25
people who were using their voice in a way that does not sound good
23:32
that is off-putting it is not putting off putting to everybody but it's
23:36
off-putting to the people who if they have
23:39
is that was more pleasing and some way or more fuller more resident they could
23:43
really advanced in their personal lives and their careers and the way they felt
23:47
about themselves
23:48
our special guest is Patrick Munoz for more information on him you can go to
23:53
his website just spell out the name patr IC k mu and cozy . com
24:01
switching gears Patrick speech impediments
24:05
how big of a problem is it for adults and how hard is it to overcome we're
24:10
recording this during political season with major presidential conventions
24:15
going on
24:16
so we it brings to light a number of top politicians with speech impediments rudy
24:21
giuliani has a list john mccain has a list there are several commentators on
24:27
MSNBC and other networks with lisps for that matter
24:32
Churchill Winston Churchill had a list and a stutter
24:36
how much does it matter if you have a compelling message number one number two
24:41
if you are an adult
24:44
let's say you're over 30 and you already have a good career how time-consuming is
24:52
it not just to change your accent but to actually overcome our pics & impediment
24:57
great questions
24:58
so a quirky voice look I know I like 40 I just mean that it's a voice that has
25:05
its that has let's say an impediment obstacle is a little bit different to
25:08
live a stutter
25:10
maybe not saying they're ours it's an interest it's so it's fascinating TJ
25:17
because if it's part of who you are and you own it and you're in the middle of
25:22
your career and you doing this the way you speak and you're out there you're
25:28
doing things and people say oh you sure now that last winter but you're like but
25:33
you you're okay with it
25:35
you're okay with it you do it and you're like yeah I have this but i'm not going
25:38
to work
25:38
it I say the more power to you I mean as a voice and speech I could be very like
25:43
this is the way I used to do it
25:45
it's about for me everyone knows about for you to send the moment ago it's
25:49
about communicating
25:50
that's all it is it's about communicating so as far as people who
25:55
are our have accent are having pediments but and they are they embrace them and
26:02
they can do it and it's not detracting from their advancement in their own
26:05
personal life
26:07
I think it's it works out it works it good more power to them a lot of people
26:14
who have impediments as an adult I've had people come to me in their 20 is
26:18
that couldn't say there are so it was very difficult to say there was and it
26:23
wasn't a new york thing it was just they consider oz and we try to get try to do
26:27
it was very disheartening for my mom and I'm thinking of young twenties
26:33
no man in his twenties and in fact when I talked about how that you know certain
26:38
sound sound like the Boston X and some likely to San from Boston and I said you
26:42
know you could we ever going to pause an exit
26:45
but for him it was a little bit challenging but I'm working on it
26:51
it got better it got better and because he's a good-looking man like me did
26:58
modeling
26:59
he's going into a profession where he's going to be a salesperson at higher end
27:06
and he wants it i'm not telling what he has to do but he wants to be able to
27:12
speak in a way that sounds more professional
27:15
he can work on it we met once a week we do over the course of 12 weeks 12
27:20
sessions is ours got much better with a perfect no but there are much better and
27:25
he did it
27:26
I've had girls love a woman that woman is backed by the list and as an actress
27:30
she has a better ear perhaps and a more compelling reason to get rid of that
27:35
list and we did it in six sections
27:39
lists are often times easier to take care of the arson is very challenging
27:45
the stutter is about relaxation
27:50
and about exercises oftentimes when they start to sing
27:54
that's daughter goes away but I was watching this show on TV
27:58
bloodline apparently he was on something else before I don't know the actors name
28:01
but he played the DA and he can't he doesn't have the walkway and say it's
28:06
all right but he has a major role that's the way he plays but he's playing these
28:09
balls so and i watched I was not want to know
28:14
broadway show you a few years ago and this woman had a list it's like I was
28:18
like a kick-ass you would say but she works all the time
28:21
it's it is such a time I'm so glad we live in a world that if you have
28:27
something and you believe in it you can make your self
28:32
if you believe in yourself and you're doing this you have some feedback from
28:35
the University so working
28:37
go for it if they're like all of us
28:40
I know for myself I've had my own fears of my own obstacles to get over and by
28:47
doing that by facing it
28:49
that fear and getting over the obstacle I feel so much more in my life so much
28:53
more whole and I want to get better and better as i get older and it
28:58
and as I teach and I learned from my clients so for those people
29:01
let's do a little do they have to all of a sudden go away from their life and put
29:05
all the time working on it
29:06
no it's been a few minutes a day identifying it and they have the
29:10
discipline to do that with a coach do it for six weeks probably see what happens
29:14
and and and for that they can see that they think this is impossible
29:18
at least they faced it but to walk away from something and say i'm not going to
29:22
do it was like I'm never going to see my arse
29:24
well that's the only impediment to actually learning is say no you say yes
29:31
let me try and you can go from so long answer to your question all my answers
29:35
are longer your questions and that is that's how this is the program this is
29:40
in fact the program for really in depth answers to questions about speaking so
29:45
if anything i want the longer I i would be remiss if I let you get away without
29:50
weighing in on one other
29:52
what I see is a major controversy regarding voice use of the vocal vocal
29:59
cords and that is with respect to women every six months I see some art of
30:03
buy some punitive expert saying women art is respected as much as men because
30:10
they don't speak and as low voice in there
30:13
they just spoke lower they would be more respected get more promotions
30:19
I have a particular theory on those theories but I want to hear from you
30:23
first
30:24
it's interesting so I we have in communication
30:29
I've been working with a call center recently working coaching for them and
30:32
the tone of voice
30:34
so on a call tone of voice and what you say that when you say part is that a
30:39
12-percent was a study done by UCLA professor years back and tone of voice
30:46
what you're saying the way you say that's like eighty percent or eighty
30:50
eight percent of what you're communicating the the words about twelve
30:55
percent for this kind of communication that we have I see you you see me
31:01
body language is 50% again their statistics wrong but that's a large part
31:06
what I say twenty percent and the toll is thirty percent so this goes back to
31:12
the tone of the voice right does the high-pitched voice then that can be that
31:16
can be taken many ways so women's voices
31:22
we all have our own little attitude and our own beliefs but how we react to
31:29
different voices
31:30
some people have had women come to me and say my voice did to Heidi to get it
31:35
i need to get a fuller
31:36
well oftentimes and here's my take on this TJ is that most of us i would say
31:41
ninety percent of americans and seventy percent of the world of making it up
31:46
don't use their voice fully right especially Americans will talk to my
31:50
throat right here that's where we talked for this is where the sound comes from
31:53
so how can we really use our voice fully effects were talking from you don't have
31:57
any kind of impact tomorrow our body or are resonators show
32:03
I think they're doing a disservice to themselves and I'm not going to point
32:07
out just women are going to say men and women are doing a bigger service to
32:10
themselves
32:11
we're not finding out that they have is bigger for stronger voice they can
32:16
ask them for their life women their voices are higher in excitement when we
32:25
get excited men and women we can start our voices are to pick up as a woman of
32:32
my voice is high or are you know in the get it
32:35
it's some women have a higher . some have a lower our voices but if I'm
32:38
starting from a platform
32:41
my boys start a little higher I'm gonna get excited and they're going to go up
32:44
here again some people that's fine they love it that's great for some people who
32:52
have been in a restaurant and there's a a table of young women and they start to
32:57
get excited about something almost always like this it's like very high now
33:02
it's a very temple in personation and always going to be you know being
33:06
accused of being sexist
33:07
I'm not saying that i was saying that as a as a woman you keep we have to get a
33:15
look at life is life is in life is changing luckily we have more opinions
33:19
and more open-minded this and realizations of only our own power and
33:24
having said that as a woman to be unfairly branded as though they're
33:31
screech your this I think that's I think that's completely chauvinistic but i do
33:36
think that they can they're doing a disservice themselves
33:41
if that's the only voice they know because oftentimes TJ
33:44
we've been conditioned to speak in a certain way either consciously or
33:47
unconsciously wouldn't we be honest feedback like oh boys don't cry boys
33:52
don't cry boys don't cry so man we don't we hold it so we don't show emotion
33:56
perhaps
33:56
and suddenly we're losing our communication which is some sort of an
34:00
emotional voicemail some people aren't emotional some people are more
34:03
I want you to be who you are but as a woman and as a man to develop your voice
34:10
and have that whole range is really gonna do you well now there was one
34:14
politician recently that some of my students interestingly enough said to me
34:18
you all of you only coach sure we really wanted to reach out to her and culture
34:22
because that voice gets kind of screech eat and other people say oh that and a
34:28
few people say that
34:29
face of hers is so wonderful is a strong man voice
34:32
so again to get to the range of opinions I will say this that I know for sure
34:37
having a coven voice where you breathe and it's relaxed and it's open that's
34:43
your base
34:44
you'll be in good stead in whatever situation if your voice goes high that's
34:48
great and it will most likely the back down and even more important than that
34:53
it will last through these it's the week of convention we can convention when you
34:58
have to be out there talking loudly or when you're on the campaign trail you're
35:01
speaking all the time you want to have a dependable voice so working on your
35:05
voice will always be to your benefit
35:08
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35:14
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35:21
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35:27
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35:32
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The Russian Perspective on Public Speaking Sergey Kuzin 0
Aug 16, 2016

The Russian Perspective on Public Speaking  Sergey Kuzin

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26lqrr_zFB8

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Bob Berkowitz - Communication Secrets of Ronald Reagan and Barbara Walters 0
Aug 15, 2016

Bob Berkowitz - Communication Secrets of Ronald Reagan and Barbara Walters

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Announcement Program Change for Speaking with TJ Walker Channel 0
Aug 12, 2016

Announcement Program Change for Speaking with TJ Walker Channel

 

Link to new show communication Tips with TJ Walker https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/communication-tip-of-the-week/id1134969296

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Michael Phelps Tactics for Great Public Speaking 0
Aug 11, 2016

Michael Phelps Tactics for Great Public Speaking

 

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so what lessons are there from michael phelps that might be appropriate and


0:05

helpful to people trying to learn how to be better speakers better communicators


0:09

after all he's an athlete is a swimmer we don't think of him as some great


0:12

public speaker i was watching the olympics last night with my wife and


0:17

daughter and was struck when the video camera zoomed in on Michael Phelps's be


0:22

after he won one race was about to run another and he wasn't closing his eyes


0:28

meditating he wasn't eating some sort of soy product he wasn't getting another


0:35

one of those suction things on his arm and body now he wasn't doing any of that


0:41

he was watching video on a computer screen and swimming now I don't know if


0:50

he was watching his own race although i suspect that it was it could be that he


0:54

was watching strokes of his competitors in another race but to me that is


1:00

extraordinarily relevant to what good public speaker should be doing you want


1:05

to get ready for your speech


1:06

watch a video of yourself already having given that great speech


1:10

Michael Phelps has never won any race in the Olympics swimming any stroke without


1:17

having watched video of himself doing it exactly the way he wants to do it


1:23

stroke by stroke breath by breath the the number of kicks and strokes down


1:28

each way the pulling back he's counted out he knows what it is he's watched it


1:33

he's seen that he has a firm vision in his mind of exactly what he wants to do


1:38

and it's not his mind's eye


1:41

it's not a metaphorical vision he's actually stared at it on a computer


1:46

screen right in front of him and that I think is also the absolute best advice


1:53

for anyone trying to get ready for a speech literally watch a video of


1:59

yourself giving that speech or that rehearsal do that and you


2:03

who might not win gold medals but you'll do well

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PR Week asks if Three is a Crowd Media Training 0
Aug 11, 2016

PR Week asks if Three is a Crowd Media Training

 

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PR week magazine asked the question is through the crowd
0:07
speaking the show about effective speaking in public to the media at work
0:19
and in life speaking with TJ Walker this is a question that's been debated for
0:30
years decades in the public relations world the question of course relates to
0:35
if you've got a reporter interviewing a CEO and executive about a story should
0:41
there be a third-person the PR person in the room now i have taken a position
0:47
over the years very firmly in favor of no it doesn't give you more control it
0:53
doesn't help with anything because if the executive in question of the
0:58
politician says something stupid
1:02
the reporter can still use it you can't have the PR person they're reeling it
1:07
back in it doesn't work like that famously earlier this year can start his
1:12
PR handler in the room she tried to stop the interview that made a much bigger
1:16
mistake it made can start look like an absolute fool even those who love 10 *
1:21
why does this happen i believe in
1:26
look folks many PR people are my friends they're my clients they're wonderful but
1:31
PR people like anyone else we do self-serving things sometimes we want to
1:36
make yourself seem more important we want to ourselves to see more
1:41
indispensable so we want to be in the room when the interview happens and
1:45
unfortunately it's counter-productive you can make the reporter feel on edge
1:50
you can make the executive being interviewed feel on edge and again hold
1:55
it feels like there's a life preserver there but it's actually not the time for
1:59
a PR person to help an executive is before the interview starts before the
2:05
reporter comes in the room or before the phone call starts and what most people
2:13
PR what most people don't do that they should do is actually rehearse the
2:17
interview with the client make sure
2:19
have not only message . but soundbites prepared if you do that you will be the
2:25
third person in room in spirit at all times
***

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California Chancellor Fired for Social Media Coverup 0
Aug 11, 2016

California Chancellor Fired for Social Media Coverup

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Ep 224 Trump's View on All Press is Good Press August 11, 2016 0
Aug 11, 2016

Ep 224 Trump's View on All Press is Good Press August 11, 2016

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is all publicity good publicity
0:10
speaking the show about effective speaking in public to the media at work
0:19
and in life
0:21
speaking with TJ Walker
0:26
if you're listening to a show like this you have no doubt heard the old cliché
0:32
there's no such thing as bad publicity various celebrities are said to have a
0:39
mouth that in times of crisis and other times
0:42
most people in the pr world don't believe this most people in the media
0:46
world don't really believe this
0:49
it's one of these old cliches and it just isn't true
0:55
now it is true of course that you're far better off getting lots and lots and
1:01
lots of publicity all the time and if ten percent or twenty percent of it is
1:06
negative and the vast majority is positive you'll probably be much more
1:11
well-known have a bigger brand much better reputation than someone who has a
1:15
hundred percent positive news coverage but only does an interview every two
1:18
years because there's just a lack of awareness of that competitor so it's not
1:24
that all of your media interviews had to be perfect and going to all coverage of
1:30
your organization has to be great all the time its course okay to have a mix
1:36
certainly if the good is far away and ahead proportionately greater than the
1:41
negative coverage
1:43
you're likely to have a good reputation but there are some anomalies to this
1:51
one of the most interesting tweets ever put out by Donald Trump I believe in a
1:56
few other observers have waited on this as well
1:59
this happened during the 2016 Republican convention
2:04
Joe I of 2016 there was all the controversy surrounding Melania Trump's
2:09
plagiarism in certain sections of michelle obama's speech something that
2:14
36 hours later was officially recognized and apologized for but here's what
2:20
Donald Trump put out in the middle of this controversy
2:26
this is this is on Twitter Donald Trump's account the real Donald Trump
2:31
good news is
2:32
milania's speech got more publicity than any in the history of politics
2:39
especially if you believe that all press is good press
2:44
now I wasn't the first observer to point this out that Donald Trump genuinely
2:49
does seem to be someone who believes that there's no such thing as bad press
2:53
he absolutely loves the media
2:57
he's been known for calling up some reporters who just trashed him but his
3:03
face got on the cover of the magazine and say hey great job fantastic article
3:08
when do we do another one
3:10
so shocking and surprising the reporter now the other observation that some
3:16
pundits have made is that Donald Trump doesn't seem to be able to differentiate
3:21
between various types of good publicity and again in his view it's it's almost a
3:28
measure of the clips to have a pre-digital analogy it's just about the
3:33
total amount of coverage and the actual content doesn't matter at all
3:38
this is a an extreme view
3:41
now i'm recording this before november election if Donald Trump becomes
3:47
president then he can have the last laugh
3:51
and he can say his strategy was the right attitude to have towards the media
3:57
it also depends on the industry you're in if you are a chewing gum upstart new
4:05
company and you get 99 percent of the people to hate you but one percent will
4:09
switch to your brand your messaging may be fine
4:13
bad publicity could work if you are a talk radio host
4:19
let's say rush limbaugh for example 20 million listeners in a week in a country
4:25
of 300 million so
4:28
and some of those are repeats so he has at best
4:34
what seven percent of the country maybe five percent of the country listening to
4:38
him in the talk radio world if you have lots and lots of publicity and most of
4:43
its negative and ninety-five percent of the world hates you
4:47
but five percent love you then you can make the case that almost any publicity
4:52
is good publicity
4:54
just getting known because if you have five percent of the world listening to
4:58
your talk radio show
4:59
guess what you can make about 50 million dollars a year or more
5:03
politics is a little bit different in that on Election Day
5:08
you have to appeal to with very rare exceptions like in two thousand you have
5:14
to appeal to fifty percent of the voters
5:16
what's one more about otherwise you're out of business so I do think you have
5:23
to worry a little more about while the negative publicity and the Melania Trump
5:29
thing it was it was negative because it was to hear someone we don't know much
5:34
about and she's caught stealing number one number two
5:40
she said she wrote it all herself and it now appears to be a lie
5:44
so you're caught stealing your caught lying
5:48
next
5:50
you're stealing from michelle obama the Democrat the the current president's
5:58
wife is a bit different party
6:00
ostensibly completely different ideology
6:04
so it takes the question do you secretly admire the very people you say your
6:11
husband's are the enemy and horrible people and not have horrible philosophy
6:14
so it was so negative it so many different levels are people really going
6:20
to vote against Donald Trump for it
6:22
no I don't think so but political conventions are rare things they're rare
6:31
opportunities for political party to rebrand itself to communicate core
6:36
messages that's why traditionally Republican parties and democratic party
6:41
conventions have had themes for a particular night and they've had their
6:46
highest profile political office holders give speeches that are a little
6:52
different but all have the same theme
6:54
if they have celebrities they're typically people who are the most
6:58
respected in their fields such as a Clint Eastwood back in two thousand
7:02
twelve give speeches
7:05
Donald Trump didn't do that time will tell that's an effective strategy or not
7:11
but to have Melania Trump story dominate the first two days of a convention and
7:18
not themes of what Trump wants to do when he's president not war critiques of
7:25
what he doesn't like Democratic administrations and Hillary Clinton has
7:30
to be defined as a failure more in just a moment
7:36
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most people in my experience in public life and the corporate world with you're
8:04
looking at this from a spectrum and it's on the on at 0 is the position that all
8:10
publicity is good publicity and a hundred is the position is just don't do
8:16
any interview whatsoever unless you're guaranteed it's one hundred percent
8:19
fantastic positive coverage from a news outlet that's friendly from a reporter
8:24
we know love and trust
8:26
if that's the continuum Donald Trump is basically a 1 or 0 and in my experience
8:34
most organizations are more than 50 60 70 range they're much closer to the side
8:41
of being so fearful of negative coverage that they turned down a lot of media
8:48
interviews to me that is a problem - it's definitely a problem if you think
8:53
all publicity is good publicity because if everybody has a low opinion of you
8:57
and no one will be your customer or vote for you or contribute to you then
9:03
no well Charles Manson Charles Manson's had a lot of publicity doesn't make him
9:09
rich
9:10
it does make him famous or infamous but here he is in prison
9:14
50 45 years later so it by definition can't be good that all publicity
9:22
it can't be true that all publicity is good otherwise Charles Manson would be
9:26
our PR role model
9:28
on the other hand there are lots of professionals out there who have
9:34
world-class expertise
9:36
nobody's ever heard of them because they have turned down every media opportunity
9:41
in their life for fear that it wouldn't be
9:44
perfect will be a hundred percent rate the biggest problem i believe for most
9:53
individuals consultants small businesses is not negative publicity
10:00
it's not a negative story biggest problem by far is obscurity
10:07
nobody knowing you so please keep in mind this balance
10:11
yes it's certainly possible as Trump's tweet points out to go too far in the
10:16
extreme of all publicity is good publicity but make sure you don't
10:21
overcorrect too far the other direction of saying no to media just because
10:26
you're fearful that not being a hundred percent perfect
10:29
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10:34
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10:38
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Ep 223 How to Speak during a Live TV or Radio Interview August 10, 2016 0
Aug 10, 2016

Ep 223 How to Speak during a Live TV or Radio Interview August 10, 2016

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how do you speak to the news media if it's a live interview
0:11
speaking the show about effective speaking in public to the media at work
0:20
and in life
0:23
speaking with TJ Walker how do you speak to the news media that's a live
0:32
interview it's live TV live radio live webcast people can see you now the
0:37
implication that's a common question I get the application is that you should
0:41
somehow treat this very differently from and edited interview whether it's video
0:46
audio or a telephone interview with the text reporter there is this idea out
0:51
there that most executives politicians authors experts have that they're just
0:57
completely different interviews
0:59
I subscribe to the school of thought that says no
1:03
for the most part you should treat them exactly the same because anything you do
1:10
well in an edited interview having a message sticking to the message having
1:15
good sound bites are pretty good things to do in live interviews
1:20
- now the irony of course is most people think that live interviews are scarier
1:25
harder to do more difficult and that somehow it's safe for easier to do
1:30
recorded interviews edited reason it's just not true with an edited interview
1:35
you give so much more power to the reporter because you can be on message
1:40
have a great message
1:41
stick to it a hundred times in three hours and say one stupid thing for two
1:46
seconds and that's the only boat that gets in the story for an edited
1:49
interview so I do believe that any time you have a chance between live versus
1:56
recorded and edited always go for the live interview
2:00
like that's why during a time of crisis some politicians actually really require
2:06
they said we will not do an interview unless it's live
2:08
because when it's live
2:11
you can guarantee that you can get some of your messages across reporter might
2:17
interrupt you my talk over you might say you're full of baloney
2:21
but you can get your message across four edited interviews
2:25
you really don't have that control the reporter can edit out anything they
2:30
think it's completely irrelevant or not remain to the topic so certainly in
2:37
times of crisis when you know your issue is going to be contentious with the
2:40
media
2:42
try to do as many live interviews as possible because you can bridge back to
2:45
your message now here's what gets people tripped up
2:48
they think oh I know I'm supposed to have bring messages bridge back to many
2:55
messages again and began for an edited interview but since it's live
3:00
I don't want to do that because i don't want to bore people here's the problem
3:04
with that attitude
3:06
let's say you're on a live talk radio show for a whole hour
3:11
sounds like a lot of time you don't want to bore people here's the thing if you
3:14
look at a typical am talk radio show for example we've got news weather sports
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traffic to about seven after the hour
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the host is going to talk set things up maybe another commercial a few questions
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the whole amount of time you talk in the first 15 minute block might only be two
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or three minutes
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well guess what for most talk radio shows the average listing time moment
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might only be 15 minutes people are listing on their drive to the grocery
3:48
store to pick up their kids out listing for the whole hour so if you don't
3:53
really nail your messages in
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a couple of times you have to talk during that 15 minute block for your own
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two minutes
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they're not going to hear it you certainly don't want to wait till the
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end of the hour to make your pitch to talk about the issue you care about the
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most
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in most situations some shows can be a little different but that's a big
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mistake many people make it the OS an hour we have the luxury of going into so
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much more detail
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you could but can you really guarantee your audience will remember more get
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much more out of it are the more likely to take the action you want again I'm
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operating under the assumption that when you're going on a talk show you want
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people to either buy your book
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subscribe to a newsletter vote for you donate to the charity you're promoting
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you want people to take a specific action
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so you've got to work back from that and figure out what are the three ideas or
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so that are going to motivate the audience to take that specific action
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and then communicate that in a way that's interesting and memorable
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now what is it a little bit different about live interviews is you don't have
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to speak in sound bites
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although if you do that only helps again what is a sound by the sound is simply
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more interesting memorable way of stating a message and stating in a
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straightforward
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abstract way the other thing about live interviews is if you say something
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interesting and quotable
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there's no reason why reporters can't pull quotes from the live interview and
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put it into other stories
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how many times have we seen some news maker live on a news program Face the
5:47
Nation one of the Sunday morning talk shows
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say something that's interesting or attack someone and then the wire
5:54
services of the New York Times will pull that quote out put it in stories that
5:59
get filtered about for the next week
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so just because something is live doesn't mean it can't
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edited especially if you say something stupid or something while the
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controversial more in a moment to hire TJ walker as a keynote speaker or
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workshop leader for your next conference call - 12 7 64 4955 this next question
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i'm going to toss out to you is what I do here from time to time it
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at first blush it seems ridiculous but it actually deals with a common problem
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the question is how do you smile during a speech now unless you have a
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neurological problem or a major dental problem
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most people smile all the time you smile when you're happy is my oh and you're
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telling a joke you smile when you hear a job
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smile and you see a child or someone you love
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so human beings smile pretty easily the problem of course is that when you're
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nervous or uncomfortable
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the thing most people do is their face goes blank if you're giving a speech and
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you don't love giving speeches and you're not a hundred percent comfortable
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most people are in that category the natural thing to do is to have your face
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go blank and the problem then is you are going to look nervous you're going to
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look uncomfortable you're going to look scared
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and that can have a downward spiraling effect because you are you thinking of
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I'm not smiling i'm looking scared two people they're going to think I'm
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nervous
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that's actually going to make you more nervous so it's a negative cycle of
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non-virtue so to speak
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so how do you protect against that two big ways of doing it
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number one have some ideas have some stories that bring a smile to your face
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the easiest way to smile is to recount and
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actual story that's relevant to your audience that brings a smile to your
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face and then it's authentic
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that's why you can't yet another reason why you can't just get up and go over
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fact fact dated updated updated up is it's just hard to smile or stuff like
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that
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what you don't want to do is have a big phony fake smile plastered on your face
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that's consistent
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it has to look authentic it's one thing people are good at all over the world
8:43
these days is spotting phony and bad actors because everyone watches movies
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TV shows produced from hollywood bollywood the great production houses of
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the world and so we're used to seeing bad actors
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so if you go from a blank scared look to to a too quick of a fake
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big smile or it's just teeth showing in your eyes don't look happy people can
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spot that Richard Nixon was famously accused of this quite often of just to
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quickly putting on a big fake smile and that building to his image of being
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insincere
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so the solution is to tell stories say things that naturally bring a light to
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your face smile to your face
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the other thing is I know you've heard me say this before so if you're tired of
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you need to practice your speeches on video and actually look at your face
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because if you're looking at your face and you're saying wow this person seems
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like he or she is frowning doesn't look happy
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then you can adjust for the next time
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if you're in front of a lot of people in your feeling nervous especially there
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any video cameras around my recommendation put just a tiny little
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bit of a smile on your face
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just a little upturn think of it almost is just bringing your cheeks up it
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doesn't have to be a giant toothy grin
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but you want your face up as opposed to completely blank as if it's completely
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blank you look bored and scared something you have to not necessarily
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practice magenta think about it
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you have to watch and you have to measure I'm PJ Walker has always been
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all of your presentations be a success and may they put smiles on other
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yeah
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speaking the show about effective speaking in public to the media at work
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and in life speaking with TJ Walker
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my guest today is as close as it comes to a natural-born salesman as I've ever
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encountered Justin ledford is with us by the age of 18 he sold more than a
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hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars worth of cutco knives
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I don't know what that is but it sure sounds difficult by the time you is just
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a college it sold more than a million dollars almost 2 million dollars worth
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of other products he's also the author of visions to the top a millionaire
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secret formula to productivity visualization and meditation Justin
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thanks for joining us
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TJ thank you so much for having me i really appreciate it
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so is it a myth or is there such a thing as a natural-born salesman
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um I think it's a myth because anybody can be taught how to communicate with
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people effectively and anybody can be taught how to sell a product especially
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if they find a passion behind what they're selling you know at the end of
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the day we're all selling herself and meeting with people i mean we're always
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selling herself and so I believe it's a myth
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I fortunately had great training great mentors and I literally learned from the
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best of the best in the business and just followed after them and did what
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they did and had great success from that philosophy follow the best I want to
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hear about your mentors in the beginning in a moment the first share with us one
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of your top nuggets from the book visions to the top what are people gonna
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learn from this
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wow that's a great question i truly believe that more and more people need
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to access their inner spiritual self what i mean by that is we all have the
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ability to close our eyes focus on our breath and we all have the ability to
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some people call meditation it's actually known as visualization Olympic
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athletes they they all do this stuff
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Michael Phelps he just won the gold medal
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two girls in the volleyball arena in the Olympics they just won the gold medal as
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well and in their interview they talked about visualization as being the key to
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their success
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visualization is a practice where you in the quietness of your home or your
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office you close your eyes and you see your day as if you want it to happen so
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i have put together the the four phases of visualization and basically it i
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teach people how to access a calm state phase one is just being focusing on your
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breath
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phase two is past successes or you're focusing on you you literally go back in
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time and you see past images in your mind images that were you want in life
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or a moment in time where you are happy somebody gave you love a moment in time
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where you were celebrating and that's in your past and you cycle through multiple
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times of your past that's past images future vision future visions is phase
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three
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that's where you focus on how you want your day to go and you see your day as
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if it's happening right there before you at the highest level of success what you
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want to achieve for the week
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see those things unfolding before you and what you want to achieve for the
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month or the year I go as far as five years 10 years 15 years and the practice
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is anywhere from five minutes to 30 minutes every morning and I've studied
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literally like some of the most successful businesspeople spiritual
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leaders athletes celebrities and there's one thing in common its visualization so
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let me play devil's advocate with a moment because I i certainly think that
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visualization can be an important part of any successful persons toolkit and
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I've heard Michael Phelps talk about that as well but i also know that for
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example Michael Phelps has watched in detail all of his gold medal
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winds from the swimming sessions he's actually not just visualized himself
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winning gold he's watched video of himself watching gold and he's been able
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to see the ultimate vision video in front of him so I so my frustration is
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when it comes to communication is I often hear so-called public speaking
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experts say close your eyes and visualize a standing ovation or
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visualize your audience loving you and my point is don't even think about doing
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that until you've practiced your speech on video and actually seen a vision of
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yourself on video speaking the way you want it
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tell me at are very contradictory or am i off base now you're absolutely correct
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you actually have to practice
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I mean there is a study but published by some russian scientist and they took for
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group of Olympic athletes group one did 100-percent physical training group to
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did 75% physical training and twenty-five percent mental training
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group 3 50 50 physical and fifty percent mental group for they did 25-percent
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physical training and seventy-five percent mental training and they found
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that over and over group for was the one who outperformed all of them
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yes they did their physical training twenty-five percent of the time and
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seventy-five percent of time they did their visualization the reason this is
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because our mind literally the neuroscience behind it are mine gets
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wired even though we're just sitting there closing our eyes and tapping into
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those emotions and feelings and senses and imagery our mind don't knows no
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difference it wires itself as if it's already happening and yes you do have to
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take action
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you do have to practice some of the greatest speakers tony robbins zig
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ziglar jim rohn they off you know as well as I know TJ they practice there's
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the presentation or their pitch or their whatever they wanted to come across
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multiple times before they went onstage
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the book is visions to the top a millionaire secret formula to
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productivity visual
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zation and meditation Justin ledford thanks for being our guest
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you're very welcome okay stop timeout let's pull back the curtain now that was
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sort of the typical length of an interview if you were on let's say a
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public radio show or NBC's Today Show Good Morning America 56 minutes now
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let's step back for a minute just it and tell us what we're trying to accomplish
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their how did you prepare how do you typically prepare for an interview like
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that how do i typically prepare for an interview like we just had
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yeah I literally get into power pose
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there's something called power poses and weak poses and imagine you're standing
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there with your chest out
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you have one hand on the table your your your focus on your breathing
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that's a power pose and then imagine the week pose where you're here maybe one
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hand is on your chin or your arms are crossed
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you're slouching over they've done Studies on power poses and weak poses a
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person who's in a power pose their brain releases testosterone and decreases
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cortisol levels whenever they're in a week pose it's the opposite
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they lose testosterone and increased cortisol so long story short what that
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means there is a woman in the Olympics recently and all ten girls are 11 girls
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are about to race and run for the sprint from the jumping over those little
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things and one of these ladies was in a power pose jumping up and down constant
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state of a power pose and the other girls are just standing there literally
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not doing anything and it was mind-boggling to me because I knew what
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she was doing
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I knew she was increasing her blood with testosterone and we're reducing cortisol
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from the power pose long story short once the gun was fired
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she flew down the track and beat everybody house this house this
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associated with communication when you're in a confident state or also
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known as peak state you feel confident you feel ready and that's how I prepare
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i show up in that state of mine confidence
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and a peak state with my chest out ready to take on whatever somebody has to
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offer and Justin this probably won't surprise you it might surprise some of
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our listeners I'm standing right now are you standing or sitting i'm standing
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both hands on my hips chest out
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ok it we're two peas in a pod and we didn't we didn't coordinate that advance
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the other just practical reason I think it's a good idea to stand for podcast
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interviews radio interviews is you're more likely to gesture move your hands
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you're more likely to breathe more deeply and I'm not someone who stood
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historically puts a lot of emphasis on the whole breath thing but i do think
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standing and not being all slumped over is an advantage for any sort of spoken
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presentation I agree
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whenever you're you can breathe in you you have more time to think and respond
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instead of being so like it's easy
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I've been on stage before my first you know presentations and business and I
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wasn't breathing and i noticed i started getting nervous
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so it's important to take a breath when you're in front of you know we have we
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have professional communicators here listening to us it's important to take a
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breath calm your mind and focus on what you need to focus on to close that deal
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or get your point across
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let's talk about focus what was your specific goal in the interview we just
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did and what were the three or more or fewer messages you really wanted to
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leave with the audience my specific goal on I really truly believe I've had a
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crazy amount of success before the age of 30 have made millions of dollars i
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have multiple businesses that produce millions of dollars in business and it's
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all because my goal is I want more people to tap into their inner power
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self their their level 10 life i want more people to understand that we can
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all visualize I give keynote messages all the time literally twice a month and
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whenever i do the visualization practice i see people with huge smiles I see
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tears coming down her face while their eyes are closed going through the
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this so what I want people to realizes we all have a great power within us we
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sometimes forget you know it's like going to the gym the first time you go
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you might not be so strong you might run it might be difficult but the second and
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third and fifth and tenth time you start to enjoy yourself running that's your
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physical body
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I'm talking about your inner mental clarity and focus and and that whenever
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somebody starts tapping in that regularly that's when they start to
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become more powerful so my purpose is to help people tap into visualization and
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meditation ultimately so they become more productive and fulfill their dreams
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so let's ask our audience let's ask them to give you feedback if you picked up on
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those messages from the interview
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feel free to to send a tweet to Justin and your twitter handle is with your
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Twitter handle
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oh my goodness it's that's a great question i am i why and for that you
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know I think presumptuous my why I'm on my wife desert my wife handles all that
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well but you don't have to use Twitter my question should be actually what is
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the social media outlet you prefer people communicate with you on it so
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they can find me on instagram at just ledford dot-com somebody took justin so
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it's j ust led ffordd or you can obviously find me on Facebook Justin
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ledford or of course my book visions to the top . com it has a contact form or
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just inlet for.net no good rule for those of you hosting podcast don't
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assume everyone thinks the same you to who
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same as you do i'm assuming people like to give out twitter for instant feedback
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but instagram is the perfectly fine social media outlet where I am
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profoundly ignorant so i'm showing my pious there so thanks for thanks for
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sharing that and go ahead and contact him on Instagram with any thoughts you
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have on the messages now
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mention anthony robbins I it's been probably 10 years but I've been to one
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of his seminars he doesn't awful lot with visualization so do many of the
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other self-help gurus you mentioned what's different about your approach how
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do you how do you communicate differentiation in your brand of and i
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don't mean this pejoratively self-help but it is help for business people in
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more than just business but life
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how do you differentiate your take on visualization well one of the things
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that I do with the audience that is listening to me whether it's in a
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keynote environment or if the reading my book are listening to the audiobook is
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there's something called a dreams list and it's you know what is a GPS do a GPS
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takes you to point a to point b as fast as possible and we all have dreams that
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we might not be fulfilling because we forgot about him
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we we are busy with work our family and whatever the case might be so what I do
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is I tap into people's dreams and simply put allow them to just get out a pen and
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paper and we write dreams list physical intellectual spiritual emotional
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material psychological and we go through several others and then we list out 325
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per category and the thing about it is when people don't know what they want in
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life how can they expect to get it when you go shoot up up bow and arrow you
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have to know what you're trying to hit and that's the concept with the dreams
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list so I tie the dreams list into the visualization practice and when I'm
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guiding somebody through the visualization practice i say certain
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things where they're able to see what they want to happen in their dream so I
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might need money might not be i'm not a guru or anything I'm just a normal guy
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who has had a lot of success before the age of 30 and i tribute that too hard
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work and visualization and our guest today is justin leopard he's the author
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of visions to the top a millionaire secret formula to productivity
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visualization
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and meditation it is available on amazon i read the kindle version lot of good
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nuggets there i would urge you to check it out
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keynote addresses to various audiences conferences all over the country in the
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world every month
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what is your signature story that is an awesome story so when I was 18 years of
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age I was having great success like you mentioned selling cutco knives which is
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a really high-end kitchen knife that's made here in America and i cut my up i
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was about to cut a pumpkin
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i sat down on the floor to get better leverage i pulled a brand new knife out
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of a sheath i put the pump the knife inside the pumpkin with my right hand I
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put my left hand on the pumpkin and I push down and before I know that I i
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dropped the knife for some reason and I felt this rush of heat go straight
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through my hand I stood up and my hand was on fire and then all the sudden just
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split open from out from my from my thumb all the way down to near my pinky
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and at that moment I said to myself do not freak out I literally said that over
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and over don't freak out
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don't freak out what I I think I would be freaking out and because i knew i
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could die if I'd freaked out blood
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I mean I don't straight up man blood was gushing hitting my ceiling
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I was hitting my fan was all over me all over my house my couch everything so I
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ran inside my bathroom grabbed a purple towel rush wrap it around my arm went
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outside started screaming for you by yourself i myself this is the day after
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Halloween I went outside and I'm screaming how
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path as long as I can and two people walk by me because my my apartment is
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facing the the parking lot they thought I was joking they were literally
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pointing at me like huh that's funny good prank and I'm screaming for help
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fortunately somebody showed up by the grace of God at the you know nick of
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time
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drop me off to the hospital and I drop me off at the wrong location i had to
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run to the ER and it with every run the blood was pumping from my arm with every
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step and I get to the window and I'm like help help the lady said no no
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you're fine just go sit down will be with you in a minute
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I remember saying some curse words to her and hitting the window that she was
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behind because I was dying you know and I go to the door
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the big blue doors and I kick through the doors with all my might
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ice cream how as loud as I can and the doctors they all they're pushing
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patients this is behind the ER where doctors are supposed to go only and they
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all look at me and start running to me I fall on the ground and i'm on the ground
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bleeding out and this guy comes up to me he takes the purple towel off me it was
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blue but now it's purple and he looks at my hand he's like oh my god what cut you
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and I looked up at this guy and right in his eyes and I said cutco have you ever
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heard of it it's okay i was still trying to sell the guy even though as died but
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that was a great moment of my life I'd say that was a signature moment in my
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life from that moment I realized you know I could make the choice to their
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prescribing drugs because of the serious pain that I was in I I could have made
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the choice to you know be a victim and play the victim mentality and all
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woe is me but instead i realized that we are powerful we can accomplish anything
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we want life and i decided to say no to what their prescribing and and heal
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through my mind through meditation through prayer through this
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organization there's a guy named dr. Emoto he studied water and the cells of
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water something i highly recommend your audience look at and i decided to heal
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myself and within a month the doctor by the way the doctor said you'll never use
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your hand again he told me right in my eyes and I looked at him I said I will
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not accept your diagnosis and then I woke up in a couple days later you know
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within a week I was that back out in the field closing deals meeting with people
20:50
having a good time because i live by the five-minute rule if something happens in
20:54
my life and it's bad or good
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let's just say it's a bad it happened I can't change it so why dwell on the past
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you know some people get upset and bring it up a week or two or a month later for
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me the five-minute rule i can i found out when i first learned about this
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about 11 years ago I can be super upset stop my feet you know bigger and moan
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but then it after five minutes I did that for like 30 seconds and i'm like
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okay well I'm supposed to do this for five minutes and I'm already done I
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don't have anything else to complain about
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so after doing that the fourth or fifth time I realized you know what I can't
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change it so let's just focus on what I can focus on and what I can achieve so
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that's the moment in my life I'd like to share with your audience
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anytime we go through challenges those are really just opportunities to see how
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we're going to take it we're gonna grow from it or put our tail between our legs
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and become weaker from it i chose to grow from it so how did you really start
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selling your career at age 14 I was someone who was more comfortable public
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speaking certainly than most kids i was one of these little student government
22:08
nerds running around giving speeches all the time and I had no problem doing that
22:14
but I could never sell anything I always came in last place for the magazine
22:18
sales in the candy sales for the various your baseball team your Cub Scout Troop
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and I did try to sell i don't know if it was cutco knives but some sort of direct
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sales thing I went out three days I think I sold nothing i was a kirby
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vacuum cleaner salesman for three days so nothing so I have tremendous respect
22:42
for anyone especially the young age you can do that how did you do that
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well i was actually mowing yards and doing odd jobs painting houses anything
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of that nature at a young age I grew up in kind of a humble background you know
22:55
we didn't have everything
22:57
some of my friends more blessed and fortunate to have a nice home nice car
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and my family went through a divorce at a young age and it was really
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challenging I never wanted that to happen with my future family so I
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realized it was mostly about money
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the fights and stuff in my growing up so I realized I never wanted that so i
23:19
started as an entrepreneur at a young age I was that weird guy you know
23:23
selling candy in school I was you know selling the football tickets and and
23:29
just having car washes and and I always always like always very entrepreneurial
23:34
and one day I was painting a house i got a phone call while i was on a ladder and
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was a guy named matt storm never remember it
23:43
he called me is super hot outside in Texas and asked if i was looking for
23:47
work I spilled the paint all over the house so obviously I was upset while I
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was talking with him but he told me one of my friends had a lot of success which
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I knew that guy was very successful
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I went in for an interview and the rest is history and I just knocked it out of
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the park once i got trained and started learning under the top people in the
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business and what was the key to that just the ability to walk into any store
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home and not worry about doors shut in your face or rejection is a numbers game
24:18
or how much of it is about just being a great communicator and good listener
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once you've got someone
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well you know in any business whether you're dealing with CEOs are trying to
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close a prospect or you're dealing with your wife or husband or children you
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have to know you have to listen to them and I wasn't afraid of hearing no
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because you're right it is a numbers game so I'd go in people's houses and
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just first and for
24:44
most how to win friends and influence people it's a great book I wanted to
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become their friend first and foremost and by doing that if they like you and
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they trust you then we'll do business with you
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so that's what ended up happening people people like me because I was friendly
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and I had a great product so they ended up buying it
25:04
so how've you continue to improve you obviously started honing your speaking
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skills even if it's just one on one when you're 14 15 and selling knives
25:15
how do you continue to improve as a speaker and what what motivates you to
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watch TED talks to watch old Ziggler videos you watch that's a great question
25:25
I'd say what motivates me I listen to podcasts literally every day on my way
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to my office i rarely watch TV unless it's something very specific beneficial
25:35
knowledge because we are what we put inside of ourselves and if we're
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listening to you know top-performing people speak and we're listening to you
25:44
know the best of the best
25:46
then it's going to rub off on us you know our level of income is in direct
25:49
proportion to the level of how much we're growing personally and we r who we
25:56
surround yourself with so i try to surround myself with you know very
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successful people I'd like i said i don't watch very much TV unless it's a
26:05
documentary or something specific i do listen a TED talks all the time I love
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your podcast and multiple other people's podcast knows that if you could share
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with and thank you by the way but share with us some of the names of other
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podcast you find particularly helpful very very good question i'd say Mady a
26:22
with millionaire mind set is one very good show podcast another one is how
26:29
Elrod with achieve your dreams
26:33
another one is the front row factor with John Roman the smart passive income
26:39
podcast with pat flynn those are a couple that just stick out to me but I'd
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say the one that inspires me the most is John Roman the front row factor and how
26:49
I rod achieve your dreams never heard of those so i will check those out
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certainly heard of pat flynn and do subscribe to his
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podcast but the others are new to me so I will double-check that those out and
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get the best speech you ever saw someone in person not necessarily on video or
27:10
Franklin Roosevelt's inaugural address but someone you saw in person the best
27:14
speech ever saw in person was in 2008 with a man named matthew kelly he wrote
27:19
the rhythm of life that book changed my life
27:22
he also wrote the dream manager that book also had a big influence of who i
27:28
am today Matthew Kelly is from Australia he's got this crazy awesome
27:33
Australian accent and he went up on stage and just dazzled me with how he
27:38
spoke his words and told his stories and it was just great man i left that
27:44
conference feeling like I was on fire and that was the best speech ever
27:48
listened to
27:49
ok and my next question it's okay did not mention somebody by name but can you
27:54
think of the worst speech you ever so on person to me it's peter low of the whole
28:00
success seminars to me he always seemed like sort of a bad parody of a
28:05
motivational speaker but is there anyone you can think of and if you want to just
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describe them that's okay too
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I can I can't on honestly think of like a bad speech that I've listened to I am
28:17
I could say that I've seen speeches where people weren't prepared where they
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were shuffling through their notes where they weren't connecting with their
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audience where they weren't getting their audience engaged
28:31
those are I can't nail one person is the worst speech I've ever heard but i can
28:36
say those simple things that if you're not connecting with your audience you
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know shuffling your papers you're not prepared if you're standing in week
28:44
poses like i mentioned people can sense this stuff and those are some of the
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things that i would say I've noticed bad speakers do any other major influences
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on you as a communicator when you were growing up in particular TV announcers
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are politicians you admired or respected because of their speaking skills
29:06
honestly my baseball coach he wasn't like a
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you know the famous or anything but he had a really really big house and he had
29:13
a baseball field in his backyard and he was a drill sergeant and some when the
29:19
Marines or something like that and just the way he spoke to us he was caring but
29:24
at the same time he was Stern he was you know passionate and that the heat of the
29:29
moment like when we were in our baseball championship games but he was also you
29:34
know common collected when he needed to be
29:36
I didn't really watch much TV grown-up sorry don't have had nothing to be sorry
29:42
about i'm sure you will not be on your deathbed regretting a little TV you
29:46
watched yeah you just gave me a flashback talking about your baseball
29:51
coach I remember for completely different reasons the speech of my
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little league football coach i was in fifth grade and everything out of the
30:01
coaches they were two coaches mouths was an obscenity and how I was brought up in
30:07
a very sort of cloistered protective Leave It to Beaver family great family
30:13
and your parents were mild mannered conservative southern baptist and I just
30:19
had never really heard a curse word other than you know once every five
30:23
years in a major crisis and i just remembered having this terrible you like
30:31
depressing almost like a slap in the face what I heard it from the football
30:36
coaches so it is amazing the things that can stick with you now for me that was
30:42
more than 40 years ago and that's amazing you brought that up because
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things are ingrained in our subconscious mind forever
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that's a fact and sometimes we can get rid of those things but our subconscious
30:56
is like it's like that you know hey you say the tip of the iceberg
31:01
while our conscious mind is the tip our subconscious is underneath the water its
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deep its vast it goes on and on and on and on and that's your subconscious mind
31:10
clicking and saying hey remember that moment and i truly believe I mean that
31:16
I'm not the only one like i said i'm not a group if you know how to program your
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subconscious mind you can achieve anything you
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life i learned this 11 years ago when i first started in business and I've been
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doing it since $YEAR and helped a lot
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our guest is justin ledford he is the author of visions to the top a
31:36
millionaire secret formula to productivity visualization and
31:40
meditation available now on amazon and especially the kindle edition the 1i
31:47
read by the way this is speaking with TJ Walker you have any questions comments
31:54
suggestions for guests in the future criticisms critiques send it to me
31:58
directly on twitter at TJ Walker you can also email me TJ at media training
32:06
worldwide . com
32:09
is there anyone else you respect now in the business world political world media
32:16
world as a communicator and we're not really talking about their politics or
32:21
even what business there in but just their ability to communicate as far as
32:25
ability communicate i would say how alrod he is the creator of the miracle
32:31
morning which is incredible book that changed my life
32:35
he's one of the best speakers that I've ever listened to
32:38
same with jon berghoff jon berghoff is not very well known but companies hire
32:43
him like Vitamix he helped that company go from i think it was 50 that 50
32:49
million to over 200 million and one year he isn't very effective communicator i
32:56
don't really keep up with current events as much as some people do
33:01
I'm kind of in my own bubble of personal growth I like to listen to your podcast
33:05
and the other podcast i mentioned and then go close deals with people that's
33:11
pretty much what i'm doing throughout the day or giving speeches at
33:14
conferences let's talk about speeches you were speaking in an early age making
33:20
sales of your painting gigs everything else one-on-one but was the first time
33:25
you spoke and said you so okay that's an actual speech it's more than five people
33:30
it's not just a schoolroom
33:32
what was your first speech my first speech I'd have to say would be actually
33:39
at a cutco vent when I was 18 years of age I had an awesome summer I was
33:44
produced over at five hundred thousand dollars in sales personally and over a
33:48
hundred twenty-five thousand dollars as a manager I train people and taught them
33:52
how to sell and I was in room with 500 people in Arizona at a big conference
33:57
and I remember just the feeling of just nailing that conversate that that speech
34:03
people standing up clapping it was a great feeling man
34:07
well that's if only we could all have so many nice successes to start with that
34:14
is it a good benchmark some people have great first speeches son like Barbara
34:20
Corcoran the famed real estate investor who is now on shark tank always talks
34:25
about our very first speech she stood up 1,000 people and her just throws nothing
34:31
came out of her mouth and she ran out of the room
34:34
it's but things turned out for her to you know speaks all over the place it's
34:38
a muscle TJ it really is my first speech ever
34:41
it was a childhood play and school I don't know how old i was i was a sheriff
34:46
and I remember being nervous and you know feeling anxiety as a kid I remember
34:51
these feelings today and the first time I didn't do so well and then the second
34:56
time and third that you know you get better with practice
34:59
they say practice makes perfect but i like to say if you try to practice
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perfectly
35:05
that's how you get it perfect and any star athletes have bad days had
35:11
strikeouts
35:13
what are some of your bad speeches surely you must have had some that
35:16
weren't quite as smooth as the first one
35:18
some of my bad speech is let's see i was trying to I'm trying to think my worst
35:26
speech i I've been brutal stages before I I've tried fallen off the stage before
35:33
that stuff my worst speech ever happened when i was $DAY i was young I you know
35:41
19 years old I started to try to sell to real estate agents inside of their
35:45
office
35:46
so I'm used to one-on-one personal person i tried to do business to
35:50
business sales but the thing is i have to go in and do a team meeting where
35:55
there's like a hundred or two hundred real estate agents and I tried that and
35:59
the people in my business that do that phenomenally but when I tried it I
36:03
didn't do so well and I didn't have that immediate success that I would use to
36:07
having so i decided to stick with my strength my strengths were one-on-one
36:13
with the people you know I've been referred to and that's the thing with
36:17
your with your communicating your audience that communicates find out what
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your strengths are and focus on those strengths
36:25
that's what you want to focus on that's what I do in my business and in all
36:31
parts of my life as well and its really helped me go very far by focusing on my
36:36
strength I do agree that that's generally the best way to go too many
36:43
people obsess over the the two-percent area where they're not doing something
36:46
right
36:47
so for example i am just not a good stand-up comic i took a stand up comedy
36:51
class 20 years ago never got to the point where I really felt like it was
36:57
working even with a test audience of friends in the stand-up comedy class and
37:02
you know what I just don't do stand-up comedy and no one's been disappointed
37:08
on the other hand i was doing an interview at ABC couple years ago my
37:16
wife was with me and she said you started every single answer using the
37:22
word well I didn't say our arm but I said well so i did have a problem there
37:30
and i decided to improve so I wrote out the word well but the International no
37:35
sign around it like no left-hand turn no parking and I tape that sign on my cell
37:40
phone computer and a few other places and drastically reduce it so we all have
37:47
flaws i know i'm certainly not perfect
37:52
do you see any flaws you have now as a speaker where are you still trying to
37:56
improve as a communicator
37:57
yeah
37:58
I feel I definitely have flaws and I feel I always find myself doing things
38:03
last minute I i like to rush I like that feeling of showing up in a peak state
38:10
and just nailing that moment so I should probably spend more time planning and
38:14
preparing and by what i mean by that
38:17
I kind of live in the philosophy of ready shoot aim instead of the
38:23
philosophy of set of the philosophy
38:25
ready aim fire so it helps me in the past but it's also hurt me in the past
38:33
so I should probably be more prepared
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that's one of my flaws and speaking of not being fully prepared
38:42
can you think of your i'll give the opportunity positive to your worst media
38:47
interview ever
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and your best media interview my worst media interview ever and my best okay so
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I'm gonna start with my best my best interview ever or speech ever
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it was funny enough it happened last week I was a keynote speaker at a
39:05
conference in Arizona or it could have been a two months ago in Houston there
39:10
they both felt the same just awesomeness if that's even a word that the speech
39:15
was titled visions to the top obvious in my book and I basically felt like tony
39:20
robbins because the room was interacting their answering questions people came up
39:26
on stage and I did some mental psychological techniques on them the
39:31
connection in the room was it was really on point at the end of it people were
39:35
crying during in at the end people were crying with joy the negative ones in the
39:40
room they ended up being cheerful and happy and the managers of each division
39:45
they contacted me afterwards and they said their teams were noticeably doing
39:49
better in performance and more productive so that would have to say one
39:53
of my best training some cells people in different states especially that last
39:58
statement that people were contacting you after the fact seeing an actual
40:02
change of performance because that's the hard part getting a tier or standing
40:07
ovation for a lot of people can be easy but it's all forgot
40:12
sometimes hours even minutes later
40:16
yeah you got to give them like a plan of action you know okay so what did we
40:20
learn today
40:21
one two three and then you know you get them something to do rather than feel
40:28
people they will remember how you made them feel but if you give them a plan of
40:32
action with that feeling they'll go home and do that action since you made them
40:37
feel great now my worst interview man thats I i don't want to sound like i
40:44
don't consider anything but i'm i'm really trying to have a hard time my
40:49
worst interview okay so this was I here we go
40:52
I was on bourbon street at the crowne plaza hotel I was a keynote message for
40:56
young college students who were also in sales and there was just a lot of
41:02
distractions i'm going to blame it on the distractions like bourbon street and
41:05
you know a TD and these kids I was the last person to speak so they were ready
41:10
to get you know go and have fun
41:13
someone to blame it on that but I also that does seem like a less than ideal
41:18
scenario and inform hat for a serious interview is a
41:23
I well remember when I was young on Bourbon Street and listening to people
41:28
pontificate on anything serious who is not the top priority and you know as far
41:32
as your audience goes like if I have found that the introduction is the
41:37
biggest one of the most important things the district manager he didn't introduce
41:42
me properly
41:43
he just like hey this is just left he's awesome let's let's hear him talk
41:47
instead of what I'm used to this guy has succeeded ah he's doing great and here's
41:53
why you should let you know the introduction whenever you're meeting
41:56
somebody or introducing somebody make that person feel special and what
42:01
happens is they become more receptive to you and open to listening and this is
42:06
slightly different but related how do you introduce yourself let's say you're
42:10
at a speaker's convention or some conference and all the sudden it's 30
42:16
people the room and they say okay let's all go up us all stand up and introduce
42:19
ourselves for 20-30 seconds how do you introduce yourself in that situation
42:24
because I know a lot of people who are articulate and accomplished suddenly
42:30
turn into just the most boring name rank and serial number people when that
42:36
happens first of all I would stand in a power pose and I would smile and that's
42:43
a how's everybody doing and I get some odd get some interaction with the stage
42:48
or with the group whoever i'm talking to and then if there was no interaction i'd
42:53
say i'm sorry i can't see very well and I put my hand on my ear and say how is
42:59
everybody doing in the next thing you know everybody's like we're doing great
43:02
so I get some interaction and then save guys my name is Justin ledford i'm not a
43:08
guru I'm just a young man who has a passion and a dream to help people
43:12
become a better version of themselves
43:14
I've had a lot of success before the age of 30 and i just have a message
43:20
it's inside my book visions to the top I teach people how to use visualization
43:23
how to use meditation and ultimately live a dream fulfilled life you know
43:29
that's basically what i would do
43:31
I'd say whether whether you're super successful in life or maybe you haven't
43:36
made it to the success that you want
43:38
it's like a buffet platter it has nuggets of wisdom inside of it that can
43:43
teach anybody at any walk of life and that's something you're interested in
43:48
you should come check we should have a conversation and I did it with a smile
43:52
and just a hot you know waving my hands people can sense if you're if you're
43:57
stuck up and stubborn and you know I like to have fun with life i wear
44:02
flip-flops you know I'm just a laid back kind of dude who home wearing Crocs
44:07
right now myself away but with we heard two peas in a pod it sounds like an
44:12
awesome i want to hear from you I don't certainly want to end on a negative note
44:18
but i do want to know what you think is some of the worst communication advice
44:23
out there because anybody can call themselves a communications expert or
44:27
are you communications guru that to use that word that I think you're not a huge
44:32
fan of what i want to know what some of the best
44:35
communication advise you think there is that isn't it either isn't followed or
44:41
people just don't stop to think about but I also want to know what bad advice
44:46
is out there that you think people should really tion absolutely that is a
44:51
great question and I will say as far as like the best advice goes you know
44:58
there's a quote that I've i live by
45:01
let's see if I can find it it's from jim rome and he said I'm having a hard time
45:07
finding it would be basically said your level of income is in direct proportion
45:14
to the amount of time you spend growing yourself and as far as communication
45:20
goes know who your audiences that's one of the best piece of advice know who
45:26
they are know what their struggles r know what their strengths are know what
45:31
they're trying to accomplish know where they're having difficulties and if you
45:37
can know that come from a place of value
45:40
how can I offer value to this audience whenever I got that in my head by
45:46
offering value people that helped me in my communication tremendously so that's
45:52
a one of the best pieces of communication that people rarely follow
45:56
know your audience and offer value to them now
45:59
did you ask me about the worst communication advice yes I'd say worse
46:05
communication device
46:07
great question uh going up and not being confident not looking people in the eye
46:15
not connecting with your audience not interacting with them these are things
46:20
I've mentioned before but I've seen it before when they're up on stage in there
46:24
they're just kind of going through the motions you know conceded like that's
46:29
not good you want to connect with your audience and get them interacted that
46:34
would be my tip and are there ways of interaction that just don't work out i
46:41
will be honest with you I personally just
46:44
really don't like it when a speaker gets up and says how's everyone doing today
46:51
or you know who here wants to make more money to me always feels very contrived
46:58
and like they're manipulating me it's like okay I have to raise my hand and
47:02
say something
47:04
how do you how do you make this judgment between the right amount of engagement
47:09
versus something that can maybe half the audience likes be the other half thinks
47:13
is cheesy and manipulative
47:16
that's a great question you really got to feel your audience out and they're
47:20
you're right TJ there's people who don't like don't like that stuff so there's
47:25
ways around it
47:27
what you do is you change their physiology and what I do is when i
47:31
noticed that kind of weirdness in the audience
47:33
I'll get them to say everybody stand up please grab all your belongings
47:37
I need everybody to take a deep breath in and a lot of times as they need to
47:41
breathe and then ok next I want you to turn to your neighbor on your right and
47:45
give my little massage turn to your left and give a little massage and that
47:49
changes their physiology changes their mental state and then if I see it again
47:53
in the presentation I will literally all guide the audience if it's a one-on-one
48:00
will walk somewhere else and change the atmosphere if it's a group presentation
48:04
i'll change it up and we'll go we'll all get them to move into a different
48:10
location
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whenever it's like a hundred or 200 plus people will have everybody switch seats
48:15
that changes the philosophy physiology of people and it kind of throws them off
48:20
a little bit and then they're they're back in peak state and final question
48:27
just what is it you want my audience to do well the is av audio sounds
48:34
pretentious amari audience what am I rush limbaugh been doing this for 50
48:37
years now what you want the listeners to the bizzle of this show to do
48:42
well you know obviously I appreciate asking i would love your audience to
48:46
pick up a copy of my book i'm actually for your audience i'm giving away that
48:49
first two chapters for free just so they can get a feel for it
48:53
I want them to read that at visions to the top .
48:57
Tom against visions to the top calm and if you like it be a supporter join our
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49:06
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49:11
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49:16
and business are in their health so I want your audience to become the best
49:20
version of themselves and that how does that happen it happens by personal
49:25
growth whenever people are personally growing that's when better better this
49:31
begins it allows them to focus on contribution and and living a better
49:37
life you know as well as I know TJ whenever you learn something new you
49:42
want to share it with somebody right of course
49:46
so I want your audience to be the best communicators possible learn how to
49:51
visualize and definitely pick up a copy of my book visions to the top calm and
49:56
they could find you on facebook just by typing in Justin ledford that is correct
50:01
they can search for genocide for addition the time that's led f 0 rd
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that's correct and also my website
50:08
Justin led for.net Justin led for.com and.net 3 w's . Justin ledford . net and
50:18
we'll post a link to that in the show notes as well
50:21
Justin thanks for being our guest today again the name of the book visions to
50:25
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50:31
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Aug 9, 2016

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Thanks for listening to Speaking with TJ Walker. The show about public speaking, media training, presentation skills, crisis communications, and presentation training.

Please send any speaking-related questions you have directly to TJ at tj@mediatrainingworldwide.com and he will answer them in future episodes.

 

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Kagod School of Business Teaching Public Speaking in front of Dogs. Seriously

Thanks for listening to Speaking with TJ Walker. The show about public speaking, media training, presentation skills, crisis communications, and presentation training.

Please send any speaking-related questions you have directly to TJ at tj@mediatrainingworldwide.com and he will answer them in future episodes.

 

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Receive Free online Public Speaking or Media Training Course today http://www.mediatrainingworldwide.com/give-away.html

 

Call +1.212.764.4955 now to discuss a customized media training or presentation training program for you or your organization.

 

For keynote speech and media inquiries, call +1.212.764.4955

 

Online media and presentation training at  http://www.mediatrainingworldwide.com/online-training.html

 

Media Training Worldwide teaches people how to speak effectively to the media and to live audiences. We train people on all aspects of media training, public speaking, PowerPoint Presentations, crisis communications and presentation training.



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