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.

Enjoy more career fund, wins, meaning, and money.

With your host, Pete McKitis.

Well, next up, I'm excited to introduce you

to someone who's taught me a whole lot about communication

and chatting with folks persuasively.

His name is Chris Westfall and he has an impressive background as the U.S. National Elevator

Pitch Champion. His strategies have created a multimillion dollar results for entrepreneurial companies on four continents.

He's had clients he's worked with up here on Shark Tank, Draggotsden and Shark Tank Australia.

He's published seven books including The new elevator pitch and bulletproof branding.

Chris shared so many fun tidbits. There are so many quotable gems here and so just a couple

teasers. He offered the critical acid test you should use in terms of

how you're going about communicating he discussed a little bit about

dialing in sizing appropriately how big of a request that you're making and the key thing you need to prove for others to begin

investing in your assumptions.

So if you want to check out all the stuff referenced here and some visual format of some of the content including the transcript that is at

awesome at your job dot com slash eep five letter e p number five and here we are Chris Westfall

Thanks so much for appearing on the how to be awesome at your job podcast

Thanks, Pete great to be here. I really appreciate it. Oh yeah, that's so fun well they heard the bio so I'd love to hear from you is there kind of what's new and fun interesting in your life beyond the professional stuff.

Well beyond the professional stuff my wife just talked me into going on this really crazy diet called the whole 30.

What's that all about?

Well, what it is is it's basically a diet to help you to kind of reset your internal

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