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Michael, thanks for joining us today. That's my pleasure. Yes, we're excited to have you, my friend.

So how would you get us started by telling us a little bit about yourself and what you do?

Most of my time is spent helping people speak well when it matters. And so that usually

looks like individual coaching with people who are in really high-stakes situations like

presidential candidates or deans at Ivy League universities. But it's also high school students

who are trying to kind of test the waters of public speaking in a certain

situation, everybody in between. And then, of course, most recently, I've been spending

my time writing a book to try to take the same tools that I use to help people speak well

and put it into something that can be found, you know, literally anywhere, a bookstore

around the world. Amazing. And what's funny is that you

you set this up in a really simple way, but there is nothing simple about what it is that you

teach. There's so much depth to it. But I love how you set this up. You said, you help people

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