Podcasts about demystifying public speaking

"People don't want perfection. People want to see a human talking to them" Dr. Alok Patel is a pediatric hospitalist, medical correspondent for ABC News, and host of multiple cable TV shows. He joins Explore The Space Podcast to discuss processes for getting comfortable with public speaking, how speaking with patients actually helps us build fundamental skills for public communication and the value of improv comedy training. From the Explore The Space Podcast archive: Dr. Susmati Pati on improv training and communication training for scientists The Explore The Space Merchandise Store is open! Please check it out Please subscribe to and rate Explore The Space on Apple Podcasts or wherever you download podcasts. Email feedback or ideas to mark@explorethespaceshow.com Check out the archive of Explore The Space Podcast as well as our Position Papers and much more! Follow on Twitter @ETSshow, Instagram @explorethespaceshow Links Twitter @AlokPatelMD  Instagram @AlokPatelMD Sponsors Learn the highest-yield clinical skills to solve 90% of patient problems without the help of a senior colleague. Visit Medmastery  https://www.medmastery.com/explorethespace where Explore The Space Podcast listeners can get a 15% discount. The remarkable Women In Medicine Summit is coming September 16 and 17th in Chicago. Do not miss out on what will be a memorable and impactful experience. Go to https://www.womeninmedicinesummit.org now to register.

In episode #9, Lara Hogan shares best practices to understand your team’s core needs and create predictability in times of uncertainty. We also discuss the difference between mentorship, coaching, and sponsorship – and how you can become a better sponsor and coach for your team. Lara is a coach for leaders in tech and the author of Resilient Management, Designing for Performance, and Demystifying Public Speaking. Prior to founding Wherewithall, she spent a decade leading teams as the VP of Engineering at Kickstarter and an Engineering Director at Etsy. Tune in to hear all about Lara’s leadership journey and the lessons learned along the way!

A resilient manager is the foundation of every successful team. How do you become a more resilient manager? Today’s guest is here to show you how. Lara Hogan is the co-founder of Wherewithall, the former VP of Engineering at Kickstarter, and the former Engineering Director at Etsy. She’s also the author of two books: Resilient Management and Demystifying Public Speaking. In this episode, Lara does what she does best: management coaching. She provides Wes with some 1:1 coaching on his management style and uses the BICEPs framework to help him better understand resistance patterns he may see in his daily work. Listen in to hear the full conversation.Wes’ Takeaways:1. Take a 5-minute walk around the block.2. Do a 2-minute breathing exercise.3. Open my TODO list.4. Open the #candidate-quotes slack channel and read happy feedback from our customer's candidates.5. Open the #gratitude slack channel and write a short message about something I'm thankful for.

The conversation starts with Lara discussing her start in technology which believe it or not started with Lord of the Rings, international studies, a semester in Prague, and photography. Lara then goes in and discusses how she started speaking publicly, how she prepares to for a presentation, and why she wrote the book "Demystifying Public Speaking". The panel then talks travel and their tips for traveling. Lara then shares about her trip to New Zealand and what she does when she's away from the keyboard. Links Lara's book: Demystifying Public Speaking Lara's website Lara on Twitter Adam Savage at Weta Workshop Bio Lara ...

This is the last week to submit a talk to Codeland, our annual tech conference, so we wanted to give you some insight on what makes a good talk, a good speaker, and a good proposal. You'll hear from Lara Hogan, who literally wrote the book on public speaking, and Kelsey Hightower, speaker and chair of many tech conferences. They share their personal speaking stories (and nightmares!), how they prepare their talks, and the common mistakes they see first-time speakers make. Show Links Digital Ocean (sponsor) MongoDB (sponsor) Heroku (sponsor) TwilioQuest (sponsor) Demystifying Public Speaking (code: NEWBIE for 10% off) OSCON Codeland CFP (submit by Nov 26) Codeland Conf Codeland 2019

Hey, everyone! This is Jag Talon and you’re listening to Friends Talk Frontend. Today we interview Lara Hogan who is the VP of engineering at Kickstarter and the author of three books: Designing for Performance, Building a device lab, and Demystifying Public Speaking. The importance of donuts Peter Pan Donuts Federal Donuts Val Head (I also have an episode with her!) Designing for Performance Designing for Performance presentation + necklace Codenewbies podcast: Why is my website slow Building a device lab Demystifying public speaking Tufted coquette Tracking compensation and promotion inequity Measuring progress Open Source Survey

As if preparing and delivering a presentation to your peers isn’t nerve-wracking enough… you also have to worry about the Q&A period at the end of your talk!   You’re worried about people asking not one but TWO questions! Having to decipher those questions that are really just comments. Then there is THE dreaded question: the question you don’t know the answer to.   You don’t want to appear stupid in front of your audience!   Truth is that the Q&A period can leave many first-time public speakers feeling like they need to know everything before they give a talk!   But you don’t, and we’re going to debunk this myth and more in today’s Build Tip.   I’m joined by Lara Hogan who is the VP of Engineering at Kickstarter and Author of Demystifying Public Speaking. Together we’ll be sharing a number of strategies to help you get ready for ANY question you receive during your next Q&A session after a presentation or team meeting. You’ll also learn some techniques to calm your nerves, engage your audience, and keep them wanting more! -- Build is produced as a partnership between Femgineer and Pivotal Tracker. San Francisco video production by StartMotionMEDIA. -- Episode Transcript Poornima:  Whether you're new to public speaking or you've been doing it for a very long time, there's gonna come a point at the end of your talk, and right before that Q&A, where your nerves are gonna flare up.                                 You're gonna be thinking, "What questions are people asking?" Or, "How do you respond to a question that you don't know the answer to?"                                 Well in today's *Build* Tip, I'm gonna cover answers to these questions and more. Welcome to *Build*, brought to you by Pivotal Tracker. I'm your host, Poornima Vijayashanker. And today I'm joined by Lara Hogan, who is the author of *Demystifying Public Speaking*, and a lover of donuts.   Lara: Absolutely.   Poornima: Yeah. So Lara, you and I have given a lot of technical talks through our careers, and gotten to this point where maybe we're not as nervous giving the talk. But at the end, there's that Q&A period. Right?   Lara: Right.   Poornima: Where we can't anticipate all the questions. Those wonderful two-parters. People who do comments instead of questions.   Lara: Absolutely.   Poornima: Or you just don't know what the answer's gonna be.   Lara: Totally.   Poornima: So, let's kinda walk through each of these. Let’s start with the first where you just don't have a sense of what the questions are gonna be.   Lara: Yeah.   How To Prepare For A Q&A Session   Poornima: Do you have a technique that you use?   Lara: Absolutely. So I like to just in general have a feedback crew of three to five people. And hopefully they're people who you know well enough to make sure they're gonna give you good critical feedback.   Poornima: Yeah.   Lara: 'Cause it's not worth it to just get feedback from people who you're not sure are gonna help you actually get better.                                 So at the end of your practice run, maybe with that feedback crew, maybe they've helped give you some feedback about your body language, about your words that you used, etc. Ask them to help you do a practice Q&A.   Poornima: OK.   Lara: Yeah.   Poornima: That's great.   Lara: I love to make sure I have a mix of people, maybe people who are new to the topic, maybe people who are really familiar with it, or know the audience really well.   Poornima: Mm-hmm.   Lara: 'Cause they can help you level up your game, and get some practice to reduce those nerves.   Poornima: Yeah.   Lara: That when you're finally on stage you're like, "I've done this before."   Poornima: Sure. And do you feel like the questions that they ask are usually indicative of what the audience is gonna ask?   Lara: I try to ask for two different kinds of questions. One's just like a stereotypical, “If you were in the audience for real, what might you ask”?   Poornima: Yeah.   Lara: But if they're your friends, they're gonna be nice, normal questions.   Poornima: Right.   Lara: I also like to add a version two, which is like, “Let's get weird.”   Poornima: Yeah.   Lara: Give me that statement that's not actually a question. Or like totally intentionally misunderstand the point that I'm trying to make, and ask me that question.   Poornima: Mm-hmm.   Lara: That way I have some practice in knowing how to handle those really sticky moments.   Poornima: So doing this in a practice session and dealing with peers, you're probably gonna feel pretty good.   Lara: Yeah.   How To Respond To A Question That Is Really Just A Comment   Poornima: But what do you do in that moment where you may get that comment that's a question? How do you respond?   Lara: Totally. I think it depends on the situation. I want to remind everybody, your audience is rooting for you. Whenever you get that, "This is more of a statement than a question." I promise it's not just you feeling the weirdness of that, it's the whole of the audience, too. And you're still in a position of power. You still have control over the room.   Poornima: Mm-hmm.   Lara: And your whole goal is to teach people something new. And make sure that they are leveling them up in whatever the topic is that you're talking about.                                 You have completely, a complete opportunity to be like, "Thanks for that. Here is how I would either reframe it, turn it into a better question, or answer the question, that you think you really wanted." Provide the information to the audience, too.   Poornima: Mm-hmm.   Lara: Yeah.   What To Do If You Get Asked A Question From Someone Who Is Online   Poornima: That's good. Now I also know a lot of times there are questions that come up where the audience isn't present, they might come up from audio, video, somebody might have written one in, Twitter, whatever. How do you facilitate those kind of questions?   Lara: Yeah, that's a really good question. I think—I hope—it helps to have a good moderator.   Poornima: Uh-huh.   Lara: To make sure that someone can actually help you navigate especially as multiple different sources of information giving you those questions.   Poornima: Yep.   Lara: But by and large, I just try to scan them, and kind of see which ones are the most relevant to my topic.   Poornima: Yeah.   Lara: Or which ones are gonna help me give an answer that will actually level up the entire audience who's listening in.   Poornima: Nice. I like what you said. So you're gonna filtering, but in a way that's gonna benefit the audience.   Lara: Yeah.   Poornima: Not just filtering for the sake of filtering.   Lara: Absolutely. Yeah.   What To  Do When You Don’t Know The Answer To A Question   Poornima: So let's talk about the last, the dreaded question, that you don't know the answer to.   Lara: Oh, those are my favorite. Yeah.   Poornima: Yeah.   Lara: I found that just in general in my career, not just in conference settings, but as for standing up in front of my team, or my boss.   Poornima: Sure, meetings.   Lara: Yeah. You have to be able to say, "I don't know."   Poornima: Yeah.   Lara: And you can do it gracefully. Just saying, "I don't know," doesn't mean that you're bad at your job. It doesn't mean that you didn't do all the—no one human can possibly know all there is to know about the topic on which you're speaking. So I like to practice also with that feedback crew saying, "I don't know." And in a really graceful and helpful way.   Poornima: Mm-hmm.   Lara: So maybe like "I don't know. I'll follow up later." And like respond on Twitter when I finally do the research on their answer.   Poornima: Yeah.   Lara: I might just be like, "I don't know. That's a great question. Come find me at the break and we can talk more about it." And my absolute favorite one is to be like, "You know, I don't know the answer to that question, but does anybody else in the audience know the answer to that question could you raise your hand? You should go talk to that person."   Poornima: Yeah. That's great.   Lara: Just totally punt on it.   Poornima: Yeah. No, that's fair. Awesome. Well thank you so much, Lara, for joining us.   Lara: Thank you so much. I appreciate it.   Poornima: Yeah. And thanks all of you for tuning in today. And special thanks to our sponsor, Pivotal Tracker, for their help in producing this episode.                                 If you've enjoyed this episode, then please subscribe to our YouTube channel. And if you have friends out there who are nervous about Q&A, be sure to share this episode with them. Bye for now.   Lara: Thanks so much.   This episode of *Build* is brought to you by our sponsor, Pivotal Tracker.

Public speaking is not just about getting on stage and giving a tech talk. It's also about communicating effectively in team meetings. Lara Hogan, VP of Engineering at Kickstarter presents a path to improving public speaking, especially for people in the tech field. We also talked about engineering teams and leadership and her latest book Demystifying Public Speaking.

Lara Hogan is an engineering director at Etsy and the author of Designing for Performance and the coauthor of Building a Device Lab. Her latest book, Demystifying Public Speaking, tackles every step involved in taking the podium and delivering the killer presentation.

Lara Hogan is an engineering director at Etsy and the author of *Designing for Performance* and the coauthor of *Building a Device Lab*. Her latest book, *Demystifying Public Speaking*, tackles every step involved in taking the podium and delivering the killer presentation.

Lara Hogan is an engineering director at Etsy and the author of Designing for Performance and the coauthor of Building a Device Lab. Her latest book, Demystifying Public Speaking, tackles every step involved in taking the podium and delivering the killer presentation.

“I saw a study that said speaking in front of a crowd is considered the number one fear of the average person. I found that amazing. Number two, was death. Death is number two? This means, to the average person, if you have to be at a funeral, you would rather be in the casket […]

Lara Hogan, Director of Engineering at Etsy, talks to Intercom's Geoffrey Keating about managing with empathy, tech's diversity problem, and her new book, Demystifying Public Speaking.

Lara Hogan's first public speaking experience was horrifying to say the least. Not only did she live to tell about it, she also continued speaking and has become an authority on the subject. Besides presenting on stage, Lara is also the author of the new book, Demystifying Public Speaking and an Engineering Director at Etsy. In this episode, Lara shares why being an actual human helps you to be a better leader, how to create a conversational tone while also being rehearsed, how to use notes effectively in your speech, why it’s important to know what you’re actually afraid of when it comes to public speaking (and what to do about it), how to feel like a superhero on stage by wearing the right clothing, how to get started as a speaker if you are not the typical expert/guru, why you should challenge yourself to say “I don’t know” five times a day, and so much more. You'll also find out why donuts should be part of your regular celebrations. Get Lara’s book at www.ABookApart.com and find out more about Lara at Larahogan.me.