Oh hey there friends, a quick reminder, this is your last chance to join Speaker School this year. So if you've ever wanted to become a more competent speaker, get clear on your message and stop over analyzing,analysing, getting in your own head. This is your chance. It is May 16th and 17th in Phoenix, Arizona. And across two days, you get the privilege of, or the nightmare of spending time with me. Learning how to clarify your message, get out of your own head. We've had people that just want to help narrowing down their two to three best ideas for a talk. We've had people that want to get better at leading a staff meeting, people who want to overcome social anxiety. The bottom line is a huge part of what makes speaker school different is that it is not passive and it is translatable and transferable to so many different aspects of your career. When we get asked, we got asked the first time of what's the ROI here? I said, well, what value do you place on being a clearer communicator and getting your point across? So no, this is not just for folks that want to go out and have a speaking career. This is for anybody who wants to get better at understanding how to take a topic you know a lot about and distill it so that other people can understand it. And that is a core aspect of leadership. So the ROI, well, it can help with job interviews, it can lead to promotions, it can help with leadership ability. It helps with running meetings, it helps improve your professional credibility, relationships, career advancement, these things are proven. Look it up in PubMed, but But most importantly folks it is just good to get into a room with other people who actually want to see you do well They want to help you they want to hear what you have to say and we are included in that as well We only run it one time a year that will Why? Well, we used to do it multiple times a year.

The issue is, you have people say, well, I might come in May.

Nah, I'm going to come in October. We used to run it in different places. Same thing. There are some things that it just is what it is. This is run one time a year. We will only ever run it at the AOC compound in Phoenix, Arizona. But if you can't do that, you don't like to travel whatever we do have one-to-one mentoring. So you can go to artofcoaching.com slash mentoring and we do one-on-one options that you can utilize via Zoom. Is it the same? No, is it valuable? Absolutely. Are you going to get a lot of reps and feedback as well? Of course, just with me or another one of our facilitators as opposed to a group. So I would encourage you. I do encourage you to try to get to speak your school because if you're going to want to get better at speaking in front of groups, well, that's how you need to practice. So again, go to artofcoaching.com, backslashevents to find that or any other workshops that we're. We also have the non superficial bullshit conference coming up. The first weekend in October, what's that about? I would just ask you this, what is something you're struggling with personally or professionally, not like unhappy or life's ending, just something that you wish you had more insight on, like how to scale your business or maybe going out on your own or how to reinvent yourself or how to work better with your spouse, whatever those things are, that is what we are having speakers come and talk about. How they navigated all the things and are still navigating all the things. The chaos, the indecision, the moments where they didn't think they were really going to make it, the piv, when they change their career, anything like that,

it is open season.

We're gonna be doing talks, round tables,

and informal discussions.

So get there, you will love it,

and you will not regret it.

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Check it out! Check it out! Welcome to the Art of Coaching Podcast. I'm Breb Arthur Alamue and at a young age, poor communication nearly caused me my life. Now, I help others navigate the gray 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 the no-nonsense type who appreciates frank conversations, advice 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. Okay diving in. This is very much related and we have Speaker School coming up, even if you're listening to this 10 years in the future. Still very much related, whether we have a Speaker School coming up or not. I was working with a client recently. If you don't know, we do one-to-one coaching. We do this both in person and we do it virtually. People come to us for a wide variety of reasons. How to manage their staff, how to improve their ability to speak or present. Sometimes it's literally just to talk about a wide range of things that they could use a devil's advocate on or a strategist personally or professionally with. This client is one of my favorite humans in the world. He is deeply insightful and he wants to speak more. And he's coached for a very long time and essentially our conversations have been about,

well, what would I speak on?

We've been parsing these things out.

I'm obviously going to protect his identity, so I'll use a fake name.

I'm also going to use some other case studies whittled into this, but it all serves the

same point.

He had a broad idea and said, well, I really want to speak to helping people be more successful.

And I'll cut right to it.

And him and I have a great relationship.

So I'm paraphrasing. I don't want you to think I was being mean to him. This is how him and I talk. Right? And I said, well, you know, the risk of that, when he explained it to me, is it can come off like a commencement speech if you're not careful, right?

That is a pretty broad topic.

How to find success, how to be more successful,

how to identify what success means for you. You have to have a framework around this and all these things he understood, right? This was the point of the call. I tried to make it clear just like I do to folks that come to our speaker school. If you have a 45 minute time span and a room full of strangers, you can ask a question that broad or similarly broad. But if you don't have a mechanism to kind of help them close that gap, you didn't give a talk. You gave a sermon or a commencement speech. And also with something that big, right, there's a lot of folks that they're not going to be able to underknow what success truly means to them. And so just stay with me. I'm gonna work you through kind of a framework so that no matter what you might wanna talk about, you'll see how this applies to you. And I said, that's always the issue with a certain audience is speakers get up and they forget one, the curse of knowledge. Whatever you're going to talk about, you know at an incredibly deep level and your audience, Aaron, that may not be there yet. And that hasn't had anything to do with their intelligence necessarily. That can do with where they're at in life. Right? And so this individual specifically wanted to talk to younger coaches, younger individuals, college students. And so you ask them what success means to them?

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