5 Tips To IMPROVE Public Speaking For Beginners
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In this episode, Dan Martell talks about the power of public speaking and the 5 strategies that have helped him overcome his fear of speaking. He also shares one of the most powerful talks he's ever given, the one that has gotten him the most recognition and impacted the most people.
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serial entrepreneur, investor, and creator of SaaS Academy.
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and make it really easy for you to approach public speaking.
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Be sure to stay at the end where I'm gonna share with you
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one of the most powerful talks I've ever given,
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So my journey to public speaking starts like over a decade ago, 2008.
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I just sold my company back in Canada where I grew up.
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my neck would get this big bright red dot right there.
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My armpits would get all like wet and like sweaty.
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I grew up as more of an introvert writing code.
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and then slowly I had to like learn how to lead teams
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and the owner comes up to me and they ask me what I do
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and I share with them that I'm in the marketing
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I think there might've been seven people that showed up.
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And I gave my talk and I got a little bit of excitement for it.
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I was like, oh, I sounded like I knew what I was talking about.
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And all these things you say to yourself in your head.
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I get paid tens of thousands of dollars to give keynotes,
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It's kind of something I used to do a whole lot more.
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And now, because I'm heads down building companies,
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it's something that I have to say less and less to.
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And I wanna share with you, if I had to go back,
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at this coworking place, I called my buddy Gare.
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his delivery is impeccable his wordsmanship his his energy his ideas that he brings to the market
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I mean he there's a reason why he's he's one of the top speakers and I remember saying to Gare
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I was like hey Gare I need to learn how to be a better speaker what do you suggest and his feedback
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to me was always say yes and I'm like that's the feedback out of all the things not around like
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story structure or like routines before you get on stage or like how to prepare anything. He's
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just like, always say yes. He goes, most people just need to put in the reps. And, and he, and
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he explained to it, the yes is, uh, if you get asked to give a speech at a wedding, say yes.
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If you get asked to, uh, is anybody want to say anything in a meeting? Say yes. Like, like literally
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anytime you're getting anxious to speak, you have to stand up and say yes to yourself. Maybe not
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out loud like, yes, I'll do it. But like in your head, you know, you know when you have opportunities
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and you just need to start by just doing it. Always saying yes, committing to the date and
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then figuring out how you're going to deliver later. Number two, the triple T, W-I-I-F-T-N-E-T-R.
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We've got three acronyms. I'm going to break them down and share with you exactly how you should
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think through them and why if they're missing, you're talking literally fall flat. So there's
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three things. Number one is triple T. First, you want to tell them what you're going to tell them.
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You want to tell them. And then you want to tell them what you told them. Okay. It's really that
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simple. At the beginning of any talk, you're going to start off and you say, here's what I'm going to
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tell you today. I'm going to share this point of view. Then you share that point of view. And at
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the end you say, I just want to recap what I just shared with you. It sounds crazy, but that is the
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structure of any good talk is because some people forget. And it's just a really clean way of just
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and then figuring out how you're gonna flow to the end.
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doing more public speaking, you make it about you.
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So I want you to make sure you always ask yourself,
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ETR, the most important, in my mind, is earn the right.
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YouTube video, Facebook video, stage presentation,
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and it's the time for everybody to teach something.
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And the ones that miss the opportunity to earn the right
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to share their story about how they learn the thing
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it misses the opportunity to build credibility.
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So it's like, if you've ever sat in an audience,
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but they don't tell you how they became the expert
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because you're like, why am I listening to this person?
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And if you just have the beginning and the end figured out,
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because you'll be able to just transition to the end.
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So many people, the beginners, you beat yourself up
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and I'm supposed to say that and da, da, da, da, da.
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you know if you forgot to tell a story i do it all the time i'm like man i forgot to close the
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loop on this story i forgot to tell this part or this thing but nobody knows except for me
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all i focus on is when i get on stage i've got the first five minutes figured out how do i start
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you know what's the joke i'm gonna tell what's the point i'm gonna make what's the first five
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minutes i just make sure that that's good and then at the very end how am i gonna finish this
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off? How am I going to put a nice little bow tie on this talk? And I need to know how I'm going to
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end. And then obviously I've outlined the rest of it, but if I can have the beginning figured out
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and the ending figured out, it takes all the pressure off. So make sure you figure out how
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you're going to start and how you're going to end. Number four, point, story, metaphor. Okay. So
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pretty much if you want to say like, Dan, give me the least amount of things I need to remember to
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tell a good speech. I'm going to say point, story, metaphor. Okay. And this is true for
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any speaking, team speaking, social media videos, whatever, whatever. Here's how it works is you,
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again, it's back to the, tell them what you're going to tell them. It's like, you have to have
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a point. Okay. So like strategies for speaking as a beginner. Okay. So that's the point story.
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How did you learn that strategy? You tell the story. Why, why did this come to you? And what
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did you discover? And what's the journey? And what does your life look like today? A lot of people,
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including myself, I forget to, how does my life look different today? I always tell like the
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challenges and I learn this thing, but I don't resolve the story. Okay. So tell the story. And
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then the metaphor for me is, is almost acts as like a, so the story's the glue. So I have a point
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I want to talk about. The story's the glue. The metaphor is kind of like a hardening,
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kind of like, it locks it in the mind. So the metaphor is kind of a visual representation of
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what you're sharing. So for example, a great metaphor, if I'm talking like the point is
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that you need to let go of excuses. Okay. Because those excuses are holding you back. And I'll tell
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a story about a time in my life where I had excuses and I was making up all these reasons
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why I couldn't do something and I overcame it. And now this is what I accomplished. This is what
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my life looks like today. And one of the metaphors I like to use for that is, you know, think of it
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this way. Every excuse you have on a daily basis, you've come up with one excuse. It's like a one
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pound weight that you put in your backpack. Okay. And you're trying to climb this ladder of success.
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Okay. So everybody's trying to climb the ladder of success for their own world, what their success
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definition is. And if every day you have a new excuse and you put that extra pound of weight
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in your backpack, that new excuse, boom, after 30 days, that backpack gets some heavy and you're
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trying to climb this ladder of success. Is it going to be easier? Is it going to be harder?
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So we need to learn how to get rid of those excuses,
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take action and keep the commitments we make to ourselves
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then telling your own story about how you learned it,
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So a lot of folks, when they get on stage and look,
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Here's the deal, anybody sitting in the audience
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looking at the person on stage thinks to themselves,
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Even though my, not only this little red spot right here
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would get dark red, my whole neck would turn red
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and my neck is getting crazy red because I'm nervous.
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And you know, one time I was giving this talk at a college
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excuse me, sir, is there something wrong with you
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Imagine, like that could have been a showstopper for me
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I just want you to know my neck's gonna turn red.
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And there's a good chance that you're gonna think
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but just pay attention to my words and the stories.
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And this is what's crazy is now it doesn't happen anymore.
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but I don't get that way when I'm talking to a friend
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I have a higher why than the downside of that happening.
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again, you might get sweaty, you might get stuttering,
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acknowledging your power, acknowledging your greatness,
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When we get nervous, it's because we're being selfish
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about how we're worried we're gonna be interpreted.
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I don't care if there could be tens of thousands
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that you will become if you keep practicing and saying yes.
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Two, the three T's, the what's in it for them and the ETR.
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As I mentioned at the beginning of this episode,
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I wanna share with you the power of belief talk
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that I gave at my friend Giovanni's Archangel event.
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and sharing a very personal story of transformation
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that's really the reason I've had any success in my life.