How to Work on Your Speech and Craft During Quarantine With Mike Pacchione

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🗓️ 13 April 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Grant Baldwin and Mike Pacchione hosted a Facebook Live to talk about how to work on your speech and hone your craft during the quarantine.

During the live stream, Grant and Mike discuss:

Tips and tricks for virtual speaking
Enjoying becoming a first-time dad
Helping speakers deliver the best talk of their lives
How to prepare for your next live gig while social distancing
Getting feedback on your talk using a recording
A simple survey to send to friends and colleagues to obtain actionable feedback
The power of asking strategic questions that actually help you build a better talk
Why most TED talks don’t even make the website
How speakers can set themselves apart from the crowd
The unanticipated break from speaking gives you the chance to be objective in assessing your talk
Sitting down to create a list of what you think makes a great talk and applying that criteria to your craft
Asking yourself a tough question: does this talk seem to go on for too long?
What characteristics can make or break a speaker’s presentation
Why watching yourself with the audio off or listening to yourself without the video can reveal unknown weaknesses
The underestimated value of self-awareness
Is a speech ever really finished?
The dangers of defaulting to quarantine or crisis-oriented content in your talk
Avoid making coronavirus jokes because everyone else will be doing it
Why virtual keynotes and digital presentation must have a higher quality than live talks
Pacing tips for virtual events
Erring on the side of more slides
Making your virtual keynote interactive
Just because there are more virtual events doesn’t mean there will be less live events
And more

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0:00.0	Hey, friend, are you looking for ways to book more paid speaking gigs?
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0:32.5	All you got to do is head over to thespeakerlab.com slash get booked.
0:36.3	That's all one word.
0:37.2	Thespeakelab.com slash get booked. That's all one word, the speakerlap.com slash get booked
0:39.3	and register right now. We look forward to seeing you on the live training.
0:53.6	Hey, it's our friends.
0:54.4	Graham Baldwin here.
0:55.3	Welcome back to the Speak Aloud podcast.
0:56.5	Hope you're doing well.
0:57.5	Hope you're having a great day.
0:58.5	Hey, today we're doing another bonus episode for you where we are continuing to provide these
1:03.0	almost daily Facebook lives where we're just having different conversations with those in the speaking
1:07.9	industry talking about how they're adapting what we can be doing and how we can stay ahead of the curve and hopefully overcome this together, which I know we can and I know we will. Yes, we can. I don't know what that was about. That was weird. Not going to lie. All right, so today we're talking with my buddy, Mike Pacione. Mike is a speaker coach, has had a lot of experience in the speaking industry. As we talk about, what can speakers be doing right now to be working on and improving their talk, not wasting this time, but really taking advantage of the opportunity that we've been given. So Mike shares some great insights here. I think you can enjoy this. So let's jump into this conversation with Mike Packeone. Enjoy it. Hey, what's our friends? Grant Baldwin here today, joined by my buddy,
1:45.2	Mr. Mike Pacione. And today we're going to be talking about all things speaking in the thick
1:50.1	of this weird COVID world that we live in. So if you've been following along, we've been doing
1:54.5	a series of these conversations and interviews with different people in the speaking industry,
1:57.8	speakers, event planners, speaker bureaus, all sorts of things.
2:02.2	And today we're talking with Mike. Mike is a, I'm going to call them a speaker coach to the stars.
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