Why Introverts Often Make the Best Public Speakers with Mike Bechtle

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4.8 • 575 Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Speaking can be pretty intimidating for introverts. In fact, you might be under the impression that all successful professional speakers are extroverts. After all, isn’t getting up on a stage the ultimate example of being a “people person”? As a matter of fact, introverts can be great public speakers–and they often bring something unique to the stage. This week, the Speaker Lab founder Grant Baldwin (who is actually an introvert!) sat down with Dr. Mike Bechtle (another introvert!) for an episode dedicated entirely to introverts and public speaking.

Dr. Bechtle’s career spans many fields: ministry, teaching college, writing books, and decades of work for a renowned coaching company. Now retired, he’s focusing on growing his platform as an author and speaker. You’ve probably seen his name in the “inspirational books'' section, where his best-selling works on communication, and interpersonal relationships reside. In a few months, you’ll be able to read his upcoming book about how introverts can succeed in the workplace. If there’s an expert on empowering introverts to communicate confidently, it’s Dr. Bechtle. And if you’re an introvert hesitant to launch your speaking business because you think your personality is holding you back, what Dr. Bechtle has to say is sure to help you take the leap.

Many introverts think that they need to change their personality or copy the flashy, theatrical extroverts to perform well on stage but that couldn’t be further from the truth. Introverts actually have a particular advantage as speakers, given their characteristic intentionality and drive to create impact. Your deep thinking and empathetic nature as an introvert enables you to effect real change for your audience. In Episode 441, Dr. Bechtle shares how to get comfortable in your own skin while succeeding as a speaker.

You’ll also learn all about:

When to hire a professional coach to help you lean into your strengths.
Why being introverted doesn’t affect your ability to match your energy to any size audience.
How to mix and mingle with your audience and avoid burnout.
How to engage emotionally with your listeners.
Strategies for blocking out time to recharge at your events.
…and so much more!

Quotable Quote: “Introverts, they're not as loud and boisterous and flashy, but they impact people and give them hope that they can do something different that they didn't think they could change 20 minutes ago.”

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0:00.0	Hey, friend, are you looking for ways to book more paid speaking gigs?
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0:36.3	That's all one word.
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0:39.3	and register right now. We look forward to seeing you on the live training.
0:46.8	Hey, what's up for? Range Graham Baldwin here. I'm excited to have you here with us today for episode 441 of the Speaker Lab podcast. And today we're going to be talking about being introverted as a public speaker, which you might be surprised describes far more professional speakers than you might think and myself included. Now, today I'm going to be joined by my friend Mike Bechtel, who has a book coming out later this year written specifically to help introverts thrive in an extroverted world while being
1:14.3	100% themselves. Mike has experience in ministry, academia, and most recently teaching speaking
1:20.0	leading workshops for a pretty major coaching company we're going to talk about today. And now that
1:23.9	he has retired, he's focusing more on building his own speaking business,
1:27.6	educating a wider audience about communicating confidently.
1:31.3	Now, having an introverted personality holds quite a few would-be speakers back from their dreams.
1:36.5	But if you think that you have to be extroverted or be some massive people person in order to succeed as a speaker,
1:43.2	that's just absolutely not true. It can be so
1:45.9	tempting to feel like you have to act fake or put on an extrovert mask in order to have an impact.
1:51.1	But as Mike's going to share with us today, not only can introverts learn how to match the energy
1:55.3	of any size audience from the stage, but your personality has many unique gifts that qualify
2:00.3	you to make a very special
2:02.0	impact. Finally, and I think this is the part that many of you listening are really going to gain a lot
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