How Powerful Men Speak—And the Secret to Gaining Influence That Lasts | T. D. Jakes (Fan Fav)

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🗓️ 15 November 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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This is a fan fav episode. Nearly everyone has a platform of some kind. Maybe your platform is on social media, or it’s home with your immediate family and close circle of friends. Regardless, what you say out of your mouth to the people around your platform matters. In this episode, Tom is joined by the legendary T.D. Jakes, who shares the incredible value of what we say to communicate and even more importantly, how we listen. T.D. Jakes break down the depth of becoming a better listener and the importance and urgency of being creative, innovative and finding mastery to strive for something greater in your entrepreneurial life and in your personal life. Order the new book from T.D. Jakes, Don’t Drop the Mic: ⁠https://www.amazon.com/Dont-Drop-Mic-Study-Guide/dp/154602946X/ref⁠ Original air date: 4-20-2021 SHOW NOTES: Power Mic | T.D. Jakes shares how he discovered the power of a platform and audience [1:46] Get it Out | Coming out of your bubble for a new experience ready to talk, listen and learn [6:37] Listen Better | T.D. Jakes explains how listening leads to understanding and less hate [10:49] New World | Why mentoring each other is necessary to get others out of their subculture [15:47] P otential | Break past limiting beliefs and expectations of others to explore possibilities [21:58] Intention | T.D. Jakes explains what’s intended versus what’s understood, being bilingual [29:15] Understand | To better understand, just listen, don’t run away, don’t try to fix the person [33:08] Seasons | Reality of not holding onto past labels and experiencing new stages of life [38:15] Action | T.D. Jakes breaks down how life requires a process to create and innovate [42:36] Urgency | T.D. Jakes reveals the urgency action in the ‘now’ and relationship value [46:45] Survive Strong | T.D. Jakes on what’s left after the trauma is always enough to rebuild [51:39] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Our country's in trouble right now because we're not listening.
0:03.7	We're talking.
0:04.2	We're all talking.
0:05.7	We've got every kind of gadget imaginable to help us to talk, but we're not listening.
0:11.8	So we talk at each other and not to each other.
0:15.2	Cost you your job.
0:17.6	Cost you your company.
0:19.6	Cost you your marriage. Cost you your son, cost you your daughter.
0:25.5	That's too expensive.
0:28.2	This is not just about being a great orator on a stage or doing a TED talk.
0:33.1	This is the survival techniques that you need to sustain the things you love about your life.
0:43.3	Will only be sustained through what you say out of your mouth.
0:51.3	Hey, everybody. Welcome to another episode of Impact Theory. I am here with the extraordinary
0:56.3	Bishop T.D. Jakes. Thank you so much for joining me today. Oh, Tom, I'm pleased to be with you,
1:02.8	and thanks for having me. Man, of course, and I'm super excited to talk about the new book. Don't drop the
1:08.6	mic. A truly legendary orator stepping up and giving the recipe,
1:14.4	as you call it, for how you do what you do. I know you were really apprehensive about writing the book
1:21.5	and trying to put sort of scientific language behind it. But the book ends up being extraordinarily
1:27.4	powerful in that it felt like a sermon.
1:30.6	If I'm completely honest, it was so full of parables and stories. And one thing that really
1:37.5	stuck out to me is this idea of the power of a man with a microphone. Talk to me about that and what made you want to write the book.
1:46.6	You know, it started for me as a little boy born in the hills of West Virginia on the
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