024: A Speech Coach in Your Pocket with Ummo’s Anshul Bhagi
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 15 June 2016
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Entrepreneur and app developer Anshul Bhagi introduces Ummo, a powerful app for public speakers, and the lessons learned along the process of making it.
You’ll learn:
1) How the new speech-coaching app Ummo can enhance your speaking
2) When the use of filler words is helpful
3) What is “upspeak” and its implications on how you’re perceived
About Anshul
Anshul Bhagi is a 2017 Harvard MBA with an undergrad and Masters in Computer Science from MIT. Previously, Anshul did PM and development at Microsoft / Apple / Google, spent two years at McKinsey & Company, and founded education startup CampK12 to teach kids in India to code. Together with his Harvard / MIT classmates Yasmin, Andrea, Sam, Damola, and Sinchan, he is building Ummo, a personalized speech coaching app (available for download here).
Items mentioned in the show:
- Camp K12
- Ummo app – they want your feedback! hello@ummoapp.com
- The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
- Ummo app’s Facebook page
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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. |
| 0:16.0 | Oh, hello, hello. |
| 0:20.1 | I'm super excited to introduce someone |
| 0:22.4 | who has among the most impressive credentials ever |
| 0:25.3 | sharing one of the coolest apps ever and his name is Anschol and the app is Umo and I think you're really going to enjoy |
| 0:32.4 | having this conversation as he |
| 0:34.9 | unveils what this thing is and how it's pretty useful and I've been having a lot of |
| 0:38.5 | fun with it. So some key takeaways are one how the new speech coaching app UMO can enhance your speaking. |
| 0:45.0 | Two, when the use of filler words can actually be helpful and three, what is up speak and |
| 0:51.5 | some of its implications on how you're perceived. |
| 0:54.7 | And again if you want to check out the show notes, the items mentioned, the transcript and |
| 0:58.7 | such, you can find that at awesome at your job. com slash Epp to four. |
| 1:04.8 | So a little bit about Anschle, |
| 1:06.3 | he is a 2017 Harvard MBA |
| 1:08.6 | with an undergrad and master's in computer science |
| 1:11.2 | from MIT. Previously, he did project management and |
| 1:14.0 | development at Microsoft, Apple and Google and spent two years at |
| 1:17.6 | McKinsey and Company and founded the education startup Camp K-12 to teach kids in |
| 1:21.7 | India to code. |
| 1:23.2 | Together with his Harvard-MIT classmates, |
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