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196. Heather Flanagan and Greg Gazin fireside chat: How to give a tech talk successfully

Time to Shine Podcast : Public speaking | Communication skills | Storytelling

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The Importance of Listening to Your Audience

"I actually wrote out everything I wanted to say. And that just became a fantastic actor because I was reading absolutely," he says. "This is how I want people to hear this. This is my cadence, my emphasis, my thing." In Toastmasters, you're sort of taught to be able to do it without the notes,. But as we get older, there's so much information being pounded into your head, he says.

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