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Hey, what's on my friend? Graham Baldwin here. Welcome back to the speaker lab podcast. We are glad

that you're here, glad that you're joining us. Today, we have a great episode. This is to the Speaker Lab podcast. We are glad that you're here.

Glad that you are joining us.

Today, we have a great episode.

This is kind of a different episode. We haven't done something like this before. And I'm excited to share this with you. So as many of you may know, hopefully you know, recently we started a brand new YouTube channel where we were doing a lot of what we're calling speech breakdowns. We are taking popular TED talks and speeches and presentations

and just doing kind of a play-by-play breakdown of what works, what doesn't work, here's some things that they can tweak, here's some things that they can improve and make better. We've been having a lot of fun with it. We've got a lot of great feedback and reaction from people, which, by the way, if you have not checked that out, and we'd love for you to go by, check it out over at YouTube.com slash the speaker lab. Again, you can find that over at YouTube.com slash the speaker lab, which, by the way, if there is a talk or presentation that you would like for us to break down on an upcoming video, then make sure that you let us know. Don't forget to subscribe, like the videos, comment on the videos, all those good things.

Now, because some of you maybe haven't checked that out yet, and we wanted to say, okay, I know a lot of people already listen to the podcast. What if we brought YouTube to audio here in the form of the podcast? So here's what we're going to do. We're going to take one of the speech breakdowns that we have done recently. Today's talk is going to be from the 2018 Toastmasters World Champion of speaking Ramona J. Smith.

And we're going to take her talk and the breakdown that we did over on YouTube.

And we're going to play that audio for you here.

Now, if you want the full effect, and again, you definitely want to make sure that you check out YouTube.

And you can go, we'll link up in the show notes to the actual breakdown if you want to see her talk in person. But I think this is going to give you a taste of what works, what doesn't work, some things that she could tweak and improve on, and some things that you want to be thinking through on your next presentation. So let's get right into it. Here's this speech breakdown from the 2018 Toastmasters World Champion of Public Speaking,

Ramona J. Smith.

Enjoy it.

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