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And one of the things I think we all have fear about or nervous about feel like maybe we're not good at it in some ways is public speaking.

I've done a few episodes on public speaking tips, but I want to do another one because there's so much misinformation out there about when you're going to give a speech, and it's

not just public speaking like, okay, I'm getting on a big stage, I'm going to speak in

front of hundreds or thousands of people. Public speaking is also when you get on a Zoom with

people and you are the one that's leading the talk or you're in a conference room and

you're the one that's leading the talk. Maybe you have a few slides and you're trying to pitch a client.

Public speaking is when you are speaking to a group of people in some capacity, big or small,

it doesn't matter.

And when you go online or you read books or whatever about how to do public speaking,

the overwhelming majority of the stuff that's out there is total trash

garbage. Now, I'm not trying to say I'm cool, but I've given hundreds of speeches in front of

tens of thousands of people and also I've given speeches in front of two to three people.

And I've done this a bunch and they go relatively well. So I want to share with you what I have realized works and what doesn't work and what best

practices as relates to public speaking are absolute embarrassing, garbage, trash, stupid.

They're stupid.

What am I going to say?

All right, so let's get into it.

One that I think we all know that we shouldn't do.

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