#105 How to Own the Room with Viv Groskop

Squiggly Careers

AmazingIf

Management, Careers, Business

4.9 • 838 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2019

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

This week Sarah interviews Viv Groskop, author of How to Own the Room (and host of the brilliant podcast with the same name). Together they discuss three ways in which you can improve your presence, performance and authenticity and generally ‘be more’. First up Viv shares why her unofficial and unpaid job is to be Michelle Obamas biggest fan, and shares how we can all be more Michelle. A big part of this is achieving what Viv calls ‘happy high status’ and she shares the actions we need to take to make that happen in our work. Then Sarah and Viv discuss storytelling and how to be more JK Rowling. And last and most importantly how you can be more you. Why nerves are not going to go away (and why that’s ok) and why it's useful to remember that its not all about you! Viv combines humour with piercing insights (no surprise that she’s both a stand up comedian and a journalist) in a way that will leave you feeling confident about how you can Own the Room. For further resources visit amazingif.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to the Squiggly Careers podcast. I'm Sarah and I'm not joined by my co-host
0:08.2	Helen this week because this is one of our special guest episodes where we invite someone to
0:12.9	join us who we think is making work better in some way, shape or form. And this week I'm delighted
0:18.9	to welcome Viv Gossgrove, who is author, presenter and stand-up
0:23.3	comedian. I'm sure you will have checked out her book and her podcast, Own the Room, and you
0:28.3	might have seen her writing in lots of different places. If you don't follow her Instagram account,
0:32.5	I definitely recommend it. I'm sure we'll talk a bit more about that. But for now, welcome to
0:36.9	podcast, Viv. Thank you. I'm so excited to talk a bit more about that. But for now, welcome to the podcast, Viv.
0:37.6	Thank you. I'm so excited to be your special guest. You are, our special guests. There's not
0:43.2	many of them. We only invite 12 a year, so you're one of 12. That's why they're so special.
0:47.0	Isn't it? Indeed. So what prompted you, you wrote the book first, the podcast followed,
0:52.3	in terms of own the room. What prompted you to think that that was a topic that needed your time and your energy?
0:59.2	Well, for people who haven't heard me before, my name is Viv Groskopp,
1:03.4	and people of a certain age, because I'm in my 40s,
1:06.7	might know my name if they were readers of the Guardian or the observer over the last 20 years.
1:14.0	So most of the first part of my career through my 20s and early 30s was writing.
1:18.9	So I was an interviewer, did loads of TV reviewing.
1:23.5	And I had a mini midlife crisis in my mid-30s, which led me into stand-up comedy.
1:30.3	I know that isn't the most obvious sentence in the world, but that's how it worked out for me.
1:34.6	It was a dream I'd always had as a child.
1:37.0	Although I love writing and I'll always want to write, I always had this dream of I'd love to be speaking my writing to people
1:48.3	because I love that connection, the communication that you have with people that you get
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