One Question Friday: What Does It Take To Be An Ace Public Speaker?

All right, it's one question Friday where we answer one question from one of the listeners. If you want to submit your question, go to MFM Pod.com. Is it.com? Mfm pod dot com? And click the little microphone to submit your question. This one came in through text message. Somebody said Hey, uh dude, I'm giving a my first talk at a conference. I got invited to speak at this conference. I'm giving my first talk. Uh I'm excited about it, but a little bit nervous. Like

He's like, I know it's gonna be fine, but I just don't want it to be lame. He's like you and Sam are really good at doing these kind of public speaking things. You know What's the trick? You know, what do I do to make this good?

Uh, what do I do to make this not just the same old, same old? So I thought we would give maybe Public speaking. Fun slash interesting. Um, what do you got? Well, I would say first, public speaking is a skill. So a lot of people think, Well, I speak all the time and I speak in public, therefore I'm probably gonna be decent at public speaking.

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