You are likely not running out of ideas, but you are running out of time. A lot of us have goals where we want to help more people, we want to get our message out there, we want to be useful. But it's very easy to overthink and over schedule ourselves and ultimately not do these things that we know could help make a bigger impact. This is one reason speaker school exists. We do not run speaker school for just perfect TED Talk style speakers or people that have your topics figured out. Speaker school is for anybody that just wants to refine how they get their point across, whether you want to be a better storyteller, whether you do have a presentation coming up, it is for anybody who knows that there is value in sharing your story and value in helping others, but you just got to get over yourself and commit to it, right? It is a two-day event that we're going to do here in Phoenix, Arizona at the Art of Coaching compound. And we have had people that have social anxiety come to this. We've had practice speakers to this. Bottom line, we get a bunch of misfits together and we work on how to make our message more clear, how to get ideas out of our own head, how to more intentionally get our message across to those who need to hear it, and ultimately just to improve as humans, there's no area of your life where becoming a better communicator, a better speaker does not provide massive return on investment. And if I have to convince you of that, you're probably not the right fit for our services, right? But knowing how to get your point across and decrease the risk of misunderstandings, help save you time, help save you money, help save you energy, and it can also help your reputation. You know, like we say the wrong thing sometimes, which this episode and many episodes are gonna talk about how to recover from

and how to manage, that can have pretty nasty effects.

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speaker school today.

Welcome to the Art of Coaching Podcast. I'm Brett Bartholomew and at a young age, poor communication nearly caused me my life. Now, I help others navigate the great area of social interaction, power dynamics, and communication so they can become more adaptable leaders regardless of their profession, age, or situation.

This podcast is for everybody who is fascinated with solving people problems.

So if you're in the no nonsense type who appreciates frank conversations,

advise you can put to use immediately and learning how others navigate the messy realities of leadership,

you're in the right place.

I'm glad that you're joining us. Let's dive in. All right, it's time. I got to be honest. Today, I was really, really in close to being enticed, to doing an episode that was very much, I don't know how many of you know about the comedian, Bill Burr, he's one of my favorites, and he's got a podcast that, while I don't listen to it often, I do appreciate the fact that this guy just gets on and rants about whatever he wants sometimes, and it is really fun. Now, of course, I think if he was being honest, he would tell you that he's working on material, assessing it out. That's how comedians do so much of that is their observers, they talk about things. But as you know, this podcast is mainly, what we try to be educational and always practical and just common and relatable. And we're not gonna make everything like a hidden brain episode or something else where those are extraordinarily valuable. I love them, but sometimes it's just nice to keep it loose. So we're gonna do a little bit of that. And I wanted to touch on some topics that people have asked. I think sometimes doing these episodes where it's a grab. But one of the main ones we'll start with is what actually makes a great coach. I got asked this recently at a round table. It's kind of a trap question because I mean obviously I wrote an entire book. My first book was on what I think makes a great coach. Now I use the term coaching as it's synonymous with leading, guiding, teaching. So this is ubiquitous. There's a lot of traps you can fall into based on where people want you to go with that. But we've had people ask about that. We've had people say I should tell more dating stories

and then we have some heavier episode requests.

Heavy or meaning, meteor.

And I wanna do these at the right time

because I like going deep, a lot of them are,

hey, how do I deal with toxic individuals?

How do I deal with people that are constantly

trying to take advantage of you?

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