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Hey, what's up, my friend, Graham Baldwin here. Welcome back to the speaker lab podcast. Hope

you're doing well. Hope you're having a great day. Really do appreciate you being with us and joining us today, whether this is your first time listening or you're a long time listener and you've listened to nearly all 200 episodes. We appreciate you being with us. Hey, if you haven't already, we'd love for you to subscribe to the podcast, leave us a rating and review. And we just so appreciate that. It helps other people to find the show. And we just want to make sure that we're making a little dent in the world. So we always love hearing from you and getting some feedback there. Hey, so today we have Ms. Melanie Diesel joining us once again for a co-hosted episode. We like doing these from time to time. Do you like hearing them? I hope so. Seems like it. We always get some good feedback whenever Melanie's hanging out with us. And today we're talking all about how to prepare and prep your mind and body for a presentation. So Melanie and I talk through our own personal, basically like what we do behind the scenes to prepare for a talk. We talk about what we do in the hours leading up to a talk in terms of any music we listen to

or food, we eat or don't eat or hydrating, talking to others, all that stuff. Just talk about all

of our routines before taking the stage. So I think you're going to pull out a lot of fun

little nuggets here in today's conversation. So let's get right into it. Here's my conversation

with Ms. Melanie Diesel talking about all about how to prepare your mind

and body for a talk enjoy what's up ladies and gentlemen boys and girls welcome back to the

speak of lab podcast grant baldon here joined by milony diesel and today we're going to be talking about

preparing for your talk preparing for your speech and really kind of like what goes on behind the scenes in the last few hours, the 24 hours leading up to your presentation to your talk, kind of just getting your head right, getting your body right, getting yourself good to go. We'll talk about it in a non-woo-woo way. Does that sound good? That's the goal. All right. All right. So, all right, give us kind of an overview. What are we going to be covering today? I mean, we're going to talk about all kinds of

things, because the reality is we talk plenty about the content, right? What you're going to be

talking about. We talk about the business side of these things. But at the end of the day, you are a human

person with a human brain and a human body. And those things have limitations. And sometimes we've got to take extra steps to make sure that we are ready to walk out there and give our best self on stage. So we're going to talk a little bit about rehearsal. We're going to talk about how to prepare your mind, right? So the things you can do to make sure you're in the right mindset. Then we're going to spend a little time talking about preparing your body, which is obviously different for every person, but we'll talk about some of the things we do to make sure that we are ready to walk out there and rock the stage. Sounds good. All right. So let's start by talking about rehearsing your material. So let's say at this point, you've worked on your talk. You've got the talk down. You've got it all like written out. Actually, just like take a quick step back. Like, what's your process for that? So do you manuscript it out? Do you do outlines? What do you do? So one of the things I do is I actually build the PowerPoint first. Now, granted, not the PowerPoint that I would use as slides, I think very visually. So it's important for me, even if the slides, or I've done the same thing with post-its, right? I need to like look at what are those capsules, those stories, those stats, those points that I want to make. How do I reorganize those, which is easy to do moving post-its or dragging slides? And then what I will do is build a script based on that. So I kind of like make those points, rearrange them until I feel like the flow is nice. And then I will script out the finer details from that. Gotcha. So do you end up manuscripting it out? I don't know if I do full manuscript. There are some parts that are fully manuscript. There are others that are more loose where I'll say tell this story. And I know how to tell that story. So maybe I haven't detailed every single snippet. But yeah, different parts are different levels of manuscripted out. All right, cool. So, all right. So let's assume that I tend to have more of a manuscript. And again, I always tell me like it's not a manuscript in the sense of like you have to memorize every single word verbatim. I want to have the gist of it. I want to know where I'm going. I want to have the spirit of it. But without, it's not a script that you're trying to know for a,

I have to get this line exactly like this. Now, there's going to be a few things that like, yeah, it needs to be said this way in this order. But like the overall thing, I just need to know the structure and where I'm going there. So let's assume at this point you've got the talk

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