Episode 25 - Leaving Your Ego For Effective Communication with Marc Williams
12/30/21 • 43 min
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."
Connect with Marc in the link below:
- Website: https://www.marcwilliamsspeaks.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marc-williams-speaks/
- Web Show: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChudlZE4_xiBaXxBNddoktw
Find out more about Toastmasters, visit https://toastmasters46.org/ and follow District 46 on:
- Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/toastmasters46/
- LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/toast-masters-district-46
- Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/TMDistrict46/
- Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/toastmasters46/
- Twitter - https://twitter.com/district46tm
Please rate, review and subscribe!
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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."
Connect with Marc in the link below:
- Website: https://www.marcwilliamsspeaks.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marc-williams-speaks/
- Web Show: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChudlZE4_xiBaXxBNddoktw
Find out more about Toastmasters, visit https://toastmasters46.org/ and follow District 46 on:
- Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/toastmasters46/
- LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/toast-masters-district-46
- Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/TMDistrict46/
- Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/toastmasters46/
- Twitter - https://twitter.com/district46tm
Please rate, review and subscribe!
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Previous Episode
Episode 24 - Step Out And Find Out: Life Lessons To Live By with Robert Goodman
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."
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:
- Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/toastmasters46/
- LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/toast-masters-district-46
- Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/TMDistrict46/
- Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/toastmasters46/
- Twitter - https://twitter.com/district46tm
Please rate, review and subscribe!
Toastmasters - where leaders are made.
Next Episode
Episode 26 - Speechwriting For Self-Discovery with Angelika Kerzakova
HIGHLIGHTS
- Podcasts as a way for self-discovery
- Growing up in Russia and the concept of conformity
- Learning English and moving to the United States
- Joining Toastmasters and loving the sense of community
- Self-improvement and the Toastmaster process
- Leadership, acknowledging mistakes, and vulnerability
QUOTES
Angelika: “For me, every speech, every topic that I've presented at Toastmasters is a way to relive your experiences, and to kind of underline, okay, what did I learn from them and how did that influence me as a person.”
Scott: “The speech making process that's embedded into the Toastmasters educational curriculum, is a way to examine, reframe and process the events in our lives if we choose to make it so.”
Angelika: “Your club, you become like a family because you bring some topics that are very vulnerable sometimes. And being that transparent with these little parts of yourself, that gives you that sense of closeness and community.”
Angelika: “Being that open about your weak spots, that's the difficult part. But then you receive the support of the person, even of an evaluator saying, I understand, I've been through that, I know what that feels like, I got you. That gives you strength.”
Find out more about Toastmasters, visit https://toastmasters46.org/ and follow District 46 on:
- Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/toastmasters46/
- LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/toast-masters-district-46
- Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/TMDistrict46/
- Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/toastmasters46/
- Twitter - https://twitter.com/district46tm
Please rate, review and subscribe!
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