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Why most public speaking advice is wrong—and how to finally overcome your speaking anxiety | Tristan de Montebello (CEO & co-founder of Ultraspeaking)
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People tend to get into a public speaking voice. We'll be in a class and they'll be chatting normally and look super normal. And then we'll say, okay, now just a timer, I'm just gonna give you a speech. Just speak for 60 seconds so we get a baseline. And I click play and suddenly they say, the important part about doing this and they enter into a different version of themselves, a professional version, whatever that would mean. It's so much more freeing, powerful, connecting and effective to speak conversation. So the cue I often give people is. Today, my guest is Tristan Damantebello. Tristan is the co-creator of Ultra Speaking, which is the best public speaking workshop I have ever come across. In 2017, Tristan became the fastest competitor to reach the finals of the world championship of public speaking. And based on that experience, built a very unique course that helps you quickly build the skills to become better and to become more comfortable speaking in public and especially speaking on the spot. I like to spend time on this topic on this podcast because becoming a better speaker is such an accelerant of your professional life. And in this episode, we delve into a bunch of tactics and also misconceptions about how to become a better speaker and to make it even more fun and interesting, we go through a few of the exercises that Tristan and his team have developed. Live on the podcast, he goes through them, I go through them, it was a lot of fun. I'm excited to hear what you think. If you enjoy this podcast, don't forget to subscribe and follow it in your favorite podcasting app or YouTube. It's the best way to avoid missing future episodes and it helps the podcast tremendously. With that, I bring you Tristan Demontabella. Tristan, thank you so much for joining me and welcome to the podcast. - Thanks so much for having me. - So I took an abridged version of this speaking course that you teach called Ultra Speaking and it immediately made me feel more comfortable public speaking, which I've never felt doing any other course.
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