Today's guest on the Transformational Pathways Podcast is executive communications coach, keynote speaker, and educator Marc Williams. Marc talks about his story as a professional public speaker, and how his experiences in Toastmasters have also informed his approach to teaching and life in general. Marc emphasizes the importance of checking your ego and understanding that there’s always more to learn. Whether in teaching or public speaking, your skills in public speaking should serve the message and the people you’re trying to reach, not yourself.
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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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