1077: The Six Insights of Excellent Communicators with Ruth Milligan

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

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🗓️ 21 July 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Ruth Milligan reveals the fundamental habits that drastically improve your speaking.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) The best way to improve at speaking—and why most don’t do it

2) The foundational communication principles for better speaking

3) How to stop saying “um” and other filler words

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— ABOUT RUTH —

RUTH MILLIGAN is the founder of Articulation, a communications training and coaching firm. In her over 35 years of wide-ranging experience, she also founded and curated TEDxColumbus, one of the longest running TEDx programs in the world. She is a proud mom, quilter, and pickleball player.

• Book: The Motivated Speaker: Six Principles to Unlock your Communication Potential

• Website: TheMotivatedSpeaker.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Study: “Threshold concepts and troublesome knowledge: Linkages to ways of thinking and practising within the disciplines” by J.H.F. Meyer and Ray Land

• Study: “The perception and passage of time during public speaking” by Efthymia Lamprou, Georgia Koupriza, and Argiro Vatakis

• Book: Several Short Sentences About Writing by Verlyn Klinkenborg

• Past episode: 001: Communicating with Inspiration and Clarity with Mawi Asgedom

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0:00.0	How to Be Awesome at your job is sponsored by LinkedIn Jobs.
0:04.0	When you clock out, LinkedIn clocks in.
0:07.4	Post your job for free at LinkedIn.com slash be awesome.
0:11.5	That's LinkedIn.com slash B-E-A-W-E-S-O-M-E. We don't just become a speaker because our mouths open.
0:28.2	We become a speaker because we practice at our genre with our audiences, to our goals, with our content, with our story.
0:47.0	We're going to be. our goals with our content, with our story. That's Ruth Milligan.
0:48.3	She's the founder of Articulation, the Communications and Coaching Firm, and one of the authors
0:51.8	of the book, The Motivated Speaker, Six Principles to Unlock Your Communication Potential. A Roof has over 35 years of experience in the field of communication. So you'll learn, one, the best way to improve at speaking, and why most don't do it. Two, the foundational communication principles for better speaking. And three, how to stop saying um and other filler words. And if you want a quick summary write-up of these actionable takeaways, I recommend being signed up for the free Gold Nugget email newsletter, which you can find over at Awesome at Your Job.com. You'll get to see the quick rundown of what Ruth had to say here, as well as unlocking the vault, the archive of all 1077 of these summary write-ups. That's called the Gold Nuggets over to awesome at your job.com.
1:29.3	I'm Pete McItis.
1:30.2	This is How to Be Awesome at Your Job.
1:31.4	And now, here's Ruth.
1:36.5	Ruth, welcome.
1:37.9	Hello.
1:38.6	How are you?
1:39.4	I'm good, very good.
1:41.1	I'm excited to chat about speaking.
1:43.7	I'm very motivated, if you will, to be discussing.
1:47.6	No pun intended. There we go. Well, I'd love to hear. You've been in the speaking game for quite a while,
1:52.2	you know, coaching, consulting, curating, speaking yourself. Can you tell me what's the most surprising
1:57.9	and fascinating thing you've discovered about us, humans and speaking over the
2:02.0	course of your career? The most fascinating is that we don't want to hear ourselves talk.
2:07.8	That's a challenge because we want people to want to listen because that's how that is the number
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