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How to Be Awesome at Your Job · 2025-07-21 · 40 min · 7,315 words

1077: The Six Insights of Excellent Communicators with Ruth Milligan

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We don't just become a speaker because our mouths open. We become a speaker because we practice at our genre with our audiences to our goals. with our content, with our story. That's Ruth Milligan. She's the founder of Articulation, a communications and coaching firm, and one of the authors of the book, The Motivated Speaker, Six Principles to Unlock Your Communication Potential.

Ruth has over 35 years of experience in the field of communication. So you'll learn one, the best way to improve its speaking, and why most don't do it, two, the foundational communication principles for better speaking, and three, how to stop saying um and other filler words. And if you want a quick summary write-up of these actionable takeaways, I recommend you sign up for the free Gold Nugget email newsletter, which you can find over at awesomeatyourjob.com. You'll get to see the quick rundown of what Ruth had to say here, as well as unlocking the Vault, the archive of all 1077. of these summary write-ups, let's call the gold nuggets over at awesomatyourjob.com.

I'm Pete McKitis. This is how to be awesome at your job. And now here's Ruth. Ruth, welcome. Hello.

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