Episode 24 - Step Out And Find Out: Life Lessons To Live By with Robert Goodman

12/23/21 • 43 min

Transformational Pathways

HIGHLIGHTS

From pre-Med to Wall Street
The critical importance of listening
Gains and opportunities opened by joining Toastmasters
Speaking is only one part of communication
Competition can be supportive and nurturing
Lessons learned after testing positive for COVID-19
Time spent with others is our best asset

QUOTES

Robert: "As valuable it is to speak, probably more important to be a good listener."

Robert: "It's not only public speaking that is the value of Toastmasters to me. It's the communication. What Toastmasters has done is to help me to crystallize my thinking, focus my comment, hopefully get rid of a lot of noise that goes on in my head, and deliver a message, whether it's table topics, a formal speech evaluation, something that people will actually remember because the message is clear."

Robert: "Motivate/inspire the people who work with and for you, and that's what Toastmasters do. They inspire and motivate others to help them with their journeys that those people might not have been able to do if they relied strictly on their own capabilities. We are the movers, we are the accelerators. "

Robert: "Because we are challenging one another to get better, we realize there's really no limit to our ability to improve how we speak, how we listen, and how we can better support one another."

Robert: "I came to realize in those 10 days, my situation was not permanent. It felt permanent, while going through it, but I realize it's part of life what we go through, our ups and downs. It's a temporary situation and it will get better. Times will change and we will adapt."

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bobgoodman1/

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HIGHLIGHTS

From pre-Med to Wall Street
The critical importance of listening
Gains and opportunities opened by joining Toastmasters
Speaking is only one part of communication
Competition can be supportive and nurturing
Lessons learned after testing positive for COVID-19
Time spent with others is our best asset

QUOTES

Robert: "As valuable it is to speak, probably more important to be a good listener."

Robert: "Because we are challenging one another to get better, we realize there's really no limit to our ability to improve how we speak, how we listen, and how we can better support one another."

Connect with Robert in the link below:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bobgoodman1/

Find out more about Toastmasters, visit https://toastmasters46.org/ and follow District 46 on:

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LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/toast-masters-district-46
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Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/toastmasters46/
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Previous Episode

Episode 23 - Overcoming Stage Fright And Unleashing Your Creativity via Lateral Thinking with Verity Price

HIGHLIGHTS

Overcoming stage fright by honoring her father's memory
Finding her voice and starting a singing career in Florida
Paint the picture: show don't tell
Recover from your falls, both literally and figuratively
Trust in the process
Growing your speaking skill with Toastmasters
Contest speaking vs real-world keynote speaking
What is lateral thinking?
Public speaking in the age of Zoom

QUOTES

Verity: "True confidence, is when you're okay with things not being okay."

Verity: "You've gotta live before you die, you've gotta smile before you cry, you can't fall unless you fly, you can't fail unless you try."

Verity: "If I look back at the first time that I had my heart broken, it was the end of the world. I didn't believe that I'd ever be okay. But subsequent heart breaks -— because life is a series of heartbreaks, I've learned that I will be okay. And yes, this is hard and I might need to mourn, and I might need to cry and it's a lot of ice cream and watching Netflix. but I know that inherently inside, I will be okay."

Verity: "Lateral thinking is just thinking sideways, off course from your normal direction of thinking, and arrive at ideas that are outside of where you would generally think."

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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamverity/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/iamverity
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/verityprice/
Website: https://www.iamverity.com/

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Next Episode

Episode 25 - Leaving Your Ego For Effective Communication with Marc Williams

HIGHLIGHTS

Formative years: From journalism to teaching
Learning about and joining Toastmasters
There's always someone better than you
What makes a story good?
Leave your ego at the door
Join Toastmasters to improve yourself
Embrace your verbs

QUOTES

Marc: "If you don't wanna make it yourself, you don't really want it."

Marc: "I would say that anybody, I don't care what level you're at, there is somebody you can meet, somebody you can speak to, somebody you can come across, who will just teach you things that you did not know."

Marc: "If I'm a great speaker, if I'm a good speaker, if I'm a compelling speaker, if I'm a helpful speaker, if I'm a transformation speaker, it's only because I've come across people who have helped me, transformed me, taught me."

Marc: "Just pick one thing that you would like to be able to do better, one thing that would make you feel a little bit better about yourself and just focus on that. You don't have to be the next Tony Robbins, you just have to be the next version of you who's gonna tell that next story that you just heard or experienced or lived through."

Marc: "The secret to being an effective educator is understanding that even if you are on the front of the room, whether you are on the stage or the guy by the side, that it's always about the students in the classroom. That is why as educators we always have to throw the ego out the door."

Marc: "Sometimes, performance is a dirty word in public speaking. I say let's stop separating all these things and merge them together. Public speaking, performing, visual, verbal, we gotta put it all together."

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