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The Double Win

How to Elevate Your Public Speaking with Pat Quinn

The Double Win

Michael Hyatt

Education, Productivity, Influence, Teamleadership, Self-improvement, Selfdevelopment, Achievement, Business, Intentionality, Management, Personaldevelopment, Selfleadership, Leadership

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

As a leader, your words matter and you want to make them count. But speaking in public is a challenge. Even an informal presentation to the team can make you a little nervy. Speaking before the board or a group of investors is worse. What do you say? And how do you say it? This may be the most challenging thing leaders have to do. It doesn’t have to be. Today we’re joined by master communicator and speaking coach Pat Quinn. Pat’s got a system for creating and delivering your signature talk that has produced results for business leaders, Olympic athletes, and New York Times best-selling authors. His system can work for you. In this episode, you’ll discover— Strategies for overcoming your fear of public speaking. That you don’t have to be the smartest person in the room—and why. The importance of having both solid content and intentional delivery. Why being too polished can work against you. Tips for cracking the code on creating a great talk. How to banish uncertainty and begin influencing others through your words. This episode of Lead to Win is brought to you by our Full Focus Planner Labor Day sale. For a limited time, you can get $5 off select planners at fullfocusplanner.com. Claim yours today. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

This episode of Lead to Win is brought to you by our Full Focus Planner Labor Day sale.

0:05.2

For a limited time, you can get $5 off select planners at full focus planner.

0:10.7

Claim yours today.

0:18.0

Hi I'm Michael Hyatt and this is lead to win our weekly podcast to help you win at work and succeed at life.

0:21.0

And today we've got some real help for you on a problem every leader faces

0:25.2

and many are afraid to tackle. What's that? Public speaking. It's a lot of people's greatest fear.

0:32.2

In fact, most people say they would rather die than

0:35.1

have to give a speech in public and certainly I felt that way for years myself.

0:39.5

But today I've got two special guests to introduce to you.

0:42.8

Pat Quinn is a master of public speaking.

0:45.7

He coaches business leaders to Olympic athletes,

0:48.8

to New York Times best-selling authors.

0:50.4

In fact, he's coached me on my speaking best speech coach I've ever had

0:55.5

by far and away. So Pat welcome to the show. Thanks Michael and we've also got

1:01.2

Pastor John Adams and he's one of Pat's top clients and he's going to get to some live coaching from Pat on one of his speeches.

1:12.0

So John, welcome to the show. Thanks Michael, I'd like to be here.

1:16.0

So I remember when Pat came in and we had to give a signature talk in front of Pat and it was several of us in our company that had to do that and I thought

1:25.8

I was I was never more scared you know like I was saying before we got on the show

1:30.3

today you know if you give a speech before thousands of people, you know, that's,

1:34.6

I wouldn't say it's easy, but after you've been doing it for a while, it's not that difficult.

1:38.4

But the biggest thing I fear is a small audience, and so to be in front of Pat, you know, this expert, legendary speech coach and have to give,

1:46.6

you know, sort of the opening to my signature talk, it was scary, but it was fun because

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