1026: How to Stop Saying Um and Become Super Articulate with Michael Hoeppner

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How to be Awesome at Your Job

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🗓️ 23 January 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Michael Hoeppner shares fast ways to improve your speaking with innovative physical exercises.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) The key reframe that transforms your speaking

2) How to break the habit of filler words

3) The simple trick to clear enunciation

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— ABOUT MICHAEL —

Michael Chad Hoeppner is the CEO of GK Training and is on a mission to help people speak well when it matters most. With nearly 20 years in the field, Hoeppner has taught at Columbia Business School and coaches thousands of professionals around the world.

His corporate clients include three of the top eight global financial firms, one third of the AmLaw100, two of the four US professional sports leagues, former presidential candidate Andrew Yang, and multinational tech, pharma, and food and beverage companies.

• Book: Don't Say Um: How to Communicate Effectively to Live a Better Life (website)

• LinkedIn: Michael Chad Hoeppner

• Website: GKTraining.com

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• Article: “To Get What You Want, Try Shutting Up” by Rachel Feintzeig

• Book: Moby Dick by Herman Melville

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0:00.0	The way to be more articulate is not to obsess about all the worthless words you're saying,
0:14.4	like kind of sort of um, but rather to be laser focused on which words you're trying to choose.
0:21.6	You may right now be very accustomed to just opening your mouth and letting a bunch of words fly out,
0:27.0	fully 40% of which are not that useful.
0:30.0	So finger-walking forces you to really, almost obsessively think about what the heck am I actually saying?
0:36.5	Well, you don't have to do this too long,
0:38.1	and all of a sudden you will have a much greater awareness of choosing words and ideas than just
0:44.7	kind of free-form letting them fly out of your mouth all the time. That's Michael Chad Hepner.
0:56.7	For almost two decades, Michael's helped coach presidential candidates, UN dignitaries,
1:01.4	Fortune 500 CEOs, and hundreds of professionals on their communication skills.
1:05.5	He's also the author of the new book, Don't Say Um, How to Communicate Effectively to Live a Better Life.
1:09.6	So you'll learn, one, the key reframe that transforms your speaking. Two, how to communicate effectively to live a better life so you'll learn one the key
1:11.0	reframe that transforms your speaking two how to break the habit of filler words and three the simple
1:16.2	trick to clear renunciation and if you like a quick summary recap of these items in written form
1:20.9	i recommend you sign for the free gold nugget email newsletter at awesome at your job.com those are
1:26.3	the gold nuggets at awesomeat Your Job.com.
1:28.3	I'm Pete McItis.
1:29.2	This is How to Be Awesome at Your Job.
1:30.7	And now here's Michael.
1:35.4	Michael, welcome.
1:36.7	Hi.
1:37.4	Thanks for having me.
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