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Hey, what's up? Frangbaldon here. Welcome back to another episode from The Vault, which is a

special edition of the Speaka Lab podcast where you're unlocking timeless episodes by revisiting some of your favorites from the show. We are going deep in the archives today and are going to be joined by Melanie Diesel to take a deep dive into how to prepare your speech. Now, she has joined us many times on the podcast as a,

as a show favorite and a team favorite. This time she's here to share her very own personal

routine. So we're going to go and talk about everything from rehearsal to music, to food,

to hydration, and literally what she's doing moments before taking the stage. You see,

preparation is key.

We all understand that as professionals, and we're going to be covering it all in this episode so that you can feel super confident in your content and equipped to knock it out of the park when it comes time for you to deliver. So let's take a step back into the archives and get to it. Here's more on how to prepare your speech with Melanie Diesel. Enjoy it.

What's up, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. Welcome back to the Speak of Lab podcast.

Grant Baldwin here joined by Melanie 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. And we'll talk about it in a non-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 you know give our 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 and then we're going to spend a little time talking about preparing your body which is obviously different for 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 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 i actually build the PowerPoint first now granted not the powerpoint that i would use

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