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On Overcoming Stammering To Become An Award Winning Speaker
Did you know that there are many well-known speakers who once had a speech impediment? These speakers had to learn how to navigate life with and overcome a stammer, or a lisp, or a stutter and work it to their advantage.
Carl Richards is an award-winning speaker from Canada, podcast strategist and coach. Carl shares deep wisdom from his personal experience of stammering as a kid.
We discuss how empowering it is to be aware of childhood experiences that may be holding us back today.
Carl shares how he came out onstage and won an award in the process and asks me a question that leads me to speak openly about my personal life.
In This Podcast About ‘Overcoming Stammering To Become An Award Winning Speaker’ You’ll Learn:
- The impact of speech impediment on a kid and how it affects one as an adult
- The one thing you need to remember to work through the anxiety and have an empowered voice
- Why singing or speaking when acting is easier than speaking in a free-flowing conversation
- About actors who have speech impediments or are introverts
- Two nuggets that can save you a lot of anguish when dealing with confidence while speaking in public
- The many different layers to voice and how it’s different in different situations and with different people.
Here’s a glance at this episode:
I Stammered as a Kid and Here’s What I Learned
The Only Person in Control is You
Famous People Who Had Speech Impediments Who Excelled Later On
Shy Actors Hide Behind Their Characters
Wise Words for Anyone Who Wants to Improve Their Speaking
Divine Intervention: Carl’s Most Disempowered Experience with Voice
How We Carry Our Early Experiences With Us
Carl’s Most Empowered Moment: Coming Out Onstage
Carl’s Favorite Voice is a Person Who Used to Stutter
Carl and SJ Get Personal
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About Carl Richards
Carl Richards has spent more than 25 years behind the microphone, on radio and on stage, entertaining and influencing audiences world wide. He’s a 3x best selling author, TEDx Speaker and emcee, host of the Speaking of Speaking Podcast and the founder and CEO of Carl Speaks and Podcast Solutions Made Made Simple. Carl helps coaches, consultants and other subject matter experts become the got authority by launching world class podcasts. He lives with his spouse in Gananoque, Ontario Canada, where he enjoys camping and boating in the 1000 Islands.
How to find Carl
You can find Carl at https:www.podcastsolutionsmadesimple.com and https:www.carlspeaks.ca.
Carl also has his own podcast Speaking of Speaking: Speaking Of Speaking
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