870: Becoming More Memorable and Persuasive with Diana Kander
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
4.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Diana Kander reveals the simple secret to creating more memorable impressions and persuading others to say yes.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) Precisely how forgettable you really are.
2) The simple secret to becoming more memorable.
3) Why you don’t want to start with a self-introduction.
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— ABOUT DIANA —
Diana is a serial entrepreneur who entered the United States as a refugee from Ukraine at the age of eight. By her early thirties, she’d launched and sold millions of dollars’ worth of products and services. Today, she is an innovation consultant, keynote speaker, and New York Times bestselling author whose books have been taught in over one hundred universities. She can juggle, do a handstand, though not at the same time . . . yet.
• Book: Go Big or Go Home: 5 Ways to Create a Customer Experience That Will Close the Deal
• Website: DianaKander.com
— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• Book: The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth About Extraordinary Results by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan
• Book: Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen
• Book: Giftology: The Art and Science of Using Gifts to Cut Through the Noise, Increase Referrals, and Strengthen Retention by John Ruhlin
• Book: Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything by BJ Fogg
• Past episode: 080: Finding and Doing the One Thing with Jay Papasan
• Past episode: 317: How to Form Habits the Smart Way with BJ Fogg, PhD
— THANK YOU SPONSORS! —
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | 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 with your host, Pete Makaitas. |
| 0:19.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 870 with Diana Candor. We brought Diana back because she has more fantastic insights to share about being memorable. |
| 0:28.0 | In fact, this was truly one of my most memorable interviews. So she walks the talk quite effectively and she's just a delight to hear. |
| 0:35.0 | So you'll learn one precisely how forgettable you really are to the simple secret to becoming more memorable. |
| 0:42.0 | And three, why you don't want to start with a self-introduction. |
| 0:46.0 | So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to items that we've referenced, |
| 0:49.0 | please visit us over at awesomeatyourjob.com slash ep870. |
| 0:54.0 | While you're there, take a look around. Some of the goodies at awesomeatyourjob.com, full text, searchable transcripts of all 870 episodes, summary, |
| 1:04.0 | write-ups of the actionable wisdom to your email and more at awesomeatyourjob.com. |
| 1:09.0 | And here's a bit about Diana. Diana is a serial entrepreneur who entered the United States as a refugee from Ukraine at the age of eight. |
| 1:15.0 | By her early 30s, she'd launched and sold millions of dollars worth of products and services. |
| 1:20.0 | Today, she's an innovation consultant, keynote speaker and New Yorktown's bestselling author whose books have been taught in over 100 universities. |
| 1:27.0 | She can juggle, do a handstand, though not quite at the same time yet. |
| 1:32.0 | Big thanks to Diana for sharing her wisdom with us and big thanks to our sponsors. Check them out. |
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| 2:37.0 | Now here's Diana Diana, welcome back to how to be awesome at your job. |
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