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    Speak Like A Pro!

    enDecember 12, 2022
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    About this Episode

    In this Pocket Sized Pep Talk, you'll learn:

    • How you can cope with the pressure and anxiety that many have when speaking.
    • Some powerful techniques to engage the audience. 
    • Adjustments that need to be made when speaking virtually.
    • Two of the biggest mistakes amateurs make when making presentations.
    • A couple of tricks of the trade picked up along the way.
    • A couple of key mentors that influenced Ian's career... and life.

    Learn more about this guest at: 

    Twitter: https://twitter.com/IanAltman

    Linked: https://www.linkedin.com/in/IanAltman/

    IanAltman.com

    SameSideSelling.com

     

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