Show Notes: Why Speaking Builds Authority Faster

Have you ever watched someone speaking on stage and thought, “I know just as much about this as they do” then immediately talked yourself out of putting yourself forward?

While they’re giving an audience the chance to understand their expertise, yours is still sitting in your head.

In this episode of Mic Drop Moments, I explore how speaking helps people experience your knowledge, follow your thinking and begin to trust you to help them.

Drawing on my years as a solicitor and more than 25 years of speaking, I share why clear explanations, relevant stories and sounding like yourself can make such a difference.

In this episode:

• Recognising the value in knowledge you’ve started taking for granted.
• Explaining your ideas in language your audience understands.
• Showing people how you approach a problem.
• Choosing what to leave out so your strongest point has room to land.
• Connecting your story with what your audience is experiencing.
• Handling questions when you don’t have every answer.
• How my hearing loss shapes the way I approach audience questions.
• Developing your speaking style without copying someone else.

Try this week

Choose one question you’re regularly asked about your work. Record yourself answering it, give an example and suggest a practical next step.

Listen back from the perspective of someone who needs your help. Could they follow your explanation? Did you get to the useful part? Did you sound like yourself?

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The answer that feels obvious to you could be exactly what somebody else needs to hear.

You may have spent years doubting whether your voice matters, while someone else is still waiting to hear what only your experience can teach them.

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