Nobody Remembers Your 20 Charts — with Ruth Milligan

Ruth Milligan has coached hundreds of conference speakers, curates TEDx Columbus, and wrote The Motivated Speaker. She's here to tell you that speaking is habitual, not natural. Michael, Wes, and Hadley get a live fifteen-second filler word hack, an uncomfortable truth about listening back to your own voice, and the three kinds of pitches Ruth has been reading for seventeen years.

What's inside

• Why a great idea beats a great speaker
• Speaking is habitual, not natural, and that’s good
• The fifteen-second breathing trick to kill fillers
• How many charts do you need? Fewer than you think
• The three pitches Ruth has read for seventeen years
• You can't get better until you listen to yourself
• Hadley contends people who send voice memos are monsters

Mentioned in this episode

• Patsy Rodenburg's "Three Circles of Energy" — a summary of the framework
• Rébecca Kleinberger, "Why you don't like the sound of your own voice" (TED)