452: Debbie Millman - Visual Storytelling, Building Your Brand, & Fostering Your Creativity

The Learning Leader Show With Ryan Hawk

Ryan Hawk

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🗓️ 27 December 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Debbie Millman has been named “one of the most creative people in business” by Fast Company, and “one of the most influential designers working today” by Graphic Design USA, Debbie Millman is also an author, educator, curator, and host of the podcast Design Matters.

Notes:

Visual Storytelling is the art of using language and images to convey a narrative account of real or imagined events.
How to make an effective presentation? You must know it thoroughly. Practice, rehearse. Get to the point where you can let it flow when you're in it.
- Don't just read what's on the slide. Use at most one sentence. Use images to help reinforce your message
"Life is so difficult when you don't know what you're talking about."
Ideas are easy... Strategies are hard. You need to understand that a presentation is a performance.
Teaching forces you to learn your topic. If you want to learn about something, sign up to teach others about it.
“I once read that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. I fundamentally disagree with this idea. I think that doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is the definition of hope.”
“A brand is simply a set of beliefs. And if you don't create a set of beliefs around your products or services, well, you stand for nothing - you have no values and no vision.”
“Actually - and ironically - people aren't really interested in a new brand form or flavor as much as they are interested in how a brand can change, impact, or improve their lives. They want brands around them that make them feel special and provide some social cache or confidence.”
Interviewing is like a game of billiards. Each question should leave you in a position to hit the next shot/ask the next question. Be overprepared so that you can flow in the moment.
- "You have to listen and really focus on the person."
- Research everything
Courage and confidence - The reps lead to confidence. Confidence leads to courage.
Branding --“Branding is a deliberate differentiation.” Brands aspire for consistency.
"You can't metabolize regret." -- Go for it.
At age 50, Debbie came out... And felt so much freedom from it
“Don’t edit your hopes and dreams before you can ever attempt them.”

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0:00.0	Every presentation is really a performance and you're performing this
0:06.7	information for people in a way that needs to be compelling, that needs to be
0:11.2	persuasive, that needs to be open to other points of view, that needs to be
0:16.8	able to be challenged, and that needs to inspire people. And if you can't do
0:22.0	that, and if you can't answer how you're going to do that, as you prepare for
0:26.1	every presentation, then you haven't really earned the right to present yet.
0:33.3	Welcome to The Learning Leaders Show, presented by Incycloble. I am your host,
0:39.7	Brian Hawke. Thank you so much for being here. Text learners to 44222 to become
0:46.7	part of Mindful Monday. You, along with tens of thousands of other learning
0:51.0	leaders from all over the world, will receive a carefully curated email from me
0:56.1	each Monday morning to help you start your week off right and soon. I'm going
1:03.4	to announce how you can read my latest book, which comes out in January 2022.
1:10.4	Early. Text learners to 44222 for more details. Now on to the night's feature
1:19.6	leader, the great Debbie Millman, named one of the most creative people in
1:24.9	business by Fast Company, and one of the most influential designers working
1:29.9	today by graphic design USA. Debbie Millman is also an author, educator, curator,
1:36.1	and host of one of the longest running podcasts ever called Design Matters.
1:42.1	During this conversation, we discuss the brand of a company and the brand of
1:47.3	you as a leader. And then visual storytelling, how to build powerpoint
1:55.1	presentations that people actually want to look at. And then the skills needed
2:01.1	to become a world-class interviewer and how it relates to billions. Fast
2:09.6	anyone. Ladies and gentlemen, you're going to love it. It's Debbie Millman. Debbie is so
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