Welcome to today's episode of the Mindset Mentor Podcasts. I am your host, Rob Dial. If you have

not you done so, hit that subscribe button so you never miss another episode. And I am running a free

workshop on March 25th called Identity Upgrade and you should be there. Because after 20 years

of studying and teaching self-development, I've seen thousands of people try to change their life

through habits and routines and actions, but nothing will stick long term if you don't change

your identity because your behavior will always fall back to who you believe that you are.

So in this workshop, I will show you step by step how to upgrade your identity and get rid of fears and limiting beliefs so that you can finally change the course of your life.

So if you're ready to become the next version of yourself, go to 2026 upgrade.com and save your seat there.

Today, we're going to be talking about four steps to

becoming a master communicator. There's one thing that you can't run from as a human. If you

deal with other humans, you're going to have to communicate with them in some sort of way.

And for me, this is something that I realized when I was younger.

I was a very shy kid. And for me, as an introvert, I can push myself now to be extroverted at

times. But when I was younger, I was young and I didn't really know how to communicate and I was

shy and I was afraid of talking to other people. And I didn't have my first girlfriend until

I was an eighth grade. And I remember being an eighth grade, not having a girlfriend and realizing

I need to stop being so shy and I need to learn how to talk to people if I ever want to have a girlfriend.

And so for me, I hated speaking up and raising my hand in school. And I hated being in front of people. Public speaking just terrified me. And then when I was 19, I started into a company that forced me to get on stage. But within four months of being in the company, they just basically said, hey, go on stage and present. And you're going to be on stage tonight, just go ahead and talk. And I had to speak from stage and learn how to speak

from stage. And they gave us training of how to go and speak from stage. I remember the hardest part

of training from speaking from stage was that I'd be 19, 20 years old in front of 40 of my friends who are also going through this

management training with me. And anytime you said a filler word like um or uh, everybody was trained

to go um, uh, like immediately after you say it. And so they forced you to get on stage. They forced

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