001: Communicating with Inspiration and Clarity with Mawi Asgedom
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 21 April 2016
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Mawi Asgedom shared some brilliant perspectives when it comes to speaking and writing with clarity.
— YOU'LL LEARN —
1) The surprisingly essential habits for the best speakers in the world.
2) How to obliterate pre-speaking jitters.
3) Keys to maintaining rhythm, interest, and engagement in writing.
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— ABOUT MAWI —
Mawi Asgedom is the founder and CEO of Mawi Learning. He has an inspiring story going from Ethiopian refugee to Harvard graduate & commencement speaker. He’s garnered many accolades as speaker, author, and educational entrepreneur. He’s published eight leadership books. He’s spoken to over 1,000,000 people at over 1,000 schools and educator conferences worldwide. His online courses have world-class completion rates and have earned his firm an illustrious CODiE award in education technology. Oprah has called him one of her Top 20 moments.
• Mawi’s book: Of Beetles and Angels
• Tool: Mawi Learning
— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• Book: The One Thing by Jay Papasan and Gary Keller
• Tool: The ultradian rhythm
• Website: Florida Virtual School
• Personality: Zig Ziglar
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.0 | Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money. |
| 0:14.0 | With your host, Pete McKitis. |
| 0:16.7 | Okay, I'm super excited to kick us off |
| 0:19.0 | by introducing one of my good friends, mentors, and heroes, |
| 0:22.2 | Maui Asgadam on this, the inaugural episode. my good |
| 0:23.1 | on this, and mentors and heroes Maui Asgadam on this, the inaugural episode of the |
| 0:25.4 | How to Be Awesome at your Job Podcast. |
| 0:27.1 | Maui shared some fantastic perspectives when it comes to speaking and writing |
| 0:31.8 | both with inspiration and clarity. |
| 0:34.3 | So some specific takeaways you're going to get here are one, |
| 0:37.8 | that surprisingly essential habits that even |
| 0:40.1 | the very best speakers in the world follow. Two, how to obliterate some of those |
| 0:44.7 | jitters or nerves if you're experiencing that before speaking and three some real |
| 0:49.0 | keys for maintaining the rhythm, interest, and engagement associated with your writing. So Maui has an |
| 0:55.4 | impressive story. He is the founder and CEO of Maui Learning, but way before that he |
| 1:00.9 | was a refugee in Africa. So he has a pretty inspiring story for how he |
| 1:07.1 | made the journey from there to going to the US and going to Harvard where he |
| 1:12.0 | became the commencement speaker. |
| 1:14.2 | He's garnered a many accolades of speaker, author and educational entrepreneur, |
| 1:18.1 | having published eight leadership books. |
| 1:20.2 | He's spoken to over a million people at over a thousand schools and educator conferences worldwide. |
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