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How to Impress Every Time You Speak (5 Unusual Public Speaking Tips)

47 min episode · 2 min read
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Nosheen Chen

Episode

47 min

Read time

2 min

Topics

Productivity, Health & Wellness, Leadership

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Key Takeaways

  • The Magic Three Formula: Master voice modulation (pronunciation, pitch, pacing, pauses), energy control (pre-game routines, turning yourself on for performance), and body language (planted feet, controlled gestures within camera frame) to level up speaking skills systematically.
  • Pause Strategy: The brain needs microseconds to process thoughts, but mouths keep talking from empty buffers, causing repetition. Deliberately pause between thought transitions to signal confidence and allow audiences to digest information, preventing word vomit and establishing credibility.
  • Pre-Game Routine Development: Create specific rituals before speaking (meditation, favorite beverage, jumping jacks, facial muscle exercises) to turn on your performance mode. Practice saying sentences in different emotional states to prime vocal muscles and establish the right energy level.
  • Low-Stakes Practice Loop: After traumatic speaking incidents (freezing, forgetting content), rebuild confidence by speaking at neighborhood events, friend gatherings, or school sessions. Document feelings before, during, and after each experience to create positive feedback loops and prove capability.

What It Covers

Executive public speaking coach Nosheen Chen explains how to master voice, energy, and body language for confident presentations, overcome freezing on stage, and develop pre-performance routines that work.

Key Questions Answered

  • The Magic Three Formula: Master voice modulation (pronunciation, pitch, pacing, pauses), energy control (pre-game routines, turning yourself on for performance), and body language (planted feet, controlled gestures within camera frame) to level up speaking skills systematically.
  • Pause Strategy: The brain needs microseconds to process thoughts, but mouths keep talking from empty buffers, causing repetition. Deliberately pause between thought transitions to signal confidence and allow audiences to digest information, preventing word vomit and establishing credibility.
  • Pre-Game Routine Development: Create specific rituals before speaking (meditation, favorite beverage, jumping jacks, facial muscle exercises) to turn on your performance mode. Practice saying sentences in different emotional states to prime vocal muscles and establish the right energy level.
  • Low-Stakes Practice Loop: After traumatic speaking incidents (freezing, forgetting content), rebuild confidence by speaking at neighborhood events, friend gatherings, or school sessions. Document feelings before, during, and after each experience to create positive feedback loops and prove capability.

Notable Moment

Chen reveals that clients often arrive after traumatic incidents where they froze on stage or watched themselves back and felt completely disconnected from their actual expertise, unable to recognize the person they saw performing.

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Episode Transcript

What happens if you take three struggling freelance marketers, lock them in a seventeenth century cottage, and don't let them live until we fix their businesses? In August, I rented an old cottage in rural Ireland and invited copywriter Rob, ecommerce designer Laura, and book coach Vicky, three freelancers desperate to stand the fuck out. And over two days, I ripped everything apart, their offers, their messaging, their branding, their lead gen, to find what was really holding them back. This is the concept of a new YouTube channel that I'm launching. You can watch the first episode for free right now. It's half an hour long. It's supposed to be entertaining as well as practical. I hope you'll enjoy watching it. So please set half an hour aside to watch it around your morning coffee, breakfast, lunch break, or on the bus or at the gym, whatever. The link to access this new YouTube channel is in the episode show notes. I really, really appreciate you taking the time to watch it. And then, you know, the usual to like it, comment, to share, talk about it around you if you like it. Thank you so much. The idea should always be to figure out how to translate your personality into the most impactful version of it so that you can really be yourself, be authentic, because that is the one thing that all of my clients say that they want to be. They always tell me, for example, if they're introverts, Nosheen, I'm an introvert. I absolutely don't want to be this loud mouth extrovert on stage, this person that I wouldn't be able to identify or that people wouldn't be able to identify me with. And I encourage them to stay, to remain introverted, but channel the most passionate parts of themselves, the most observant parts of themselves, the most interesting parts of themselves when they are speaking in public. Welcome to another episode of everyone hates marketers.com, the no fluff, actionable marketing podcast for people sick of marketing bullshit. I'm your host Louis Gaugheniere. In today's episode, you will learn how to speak on camera or in real life without fear so you can stand the fuck out. My guest today is a executive public speaking coach, and I will need her help in that episode, I can tell you. She's helped more than 100 leaders to speak confidently on stage and on camera in six different countries. She comes from the Fortune 50 world. She managed marketing, training at, Procter and Gamble. She tried improv, bootstrap a startup who took $1,000,000 in revenue. She's done so fucking much. But I guess what I love the most about my guest today is that she has an eye for detail, an eye for branding, and she's running a very, very cool business, especially on LinkedIn where I've discovered her. Nuxin Chen, Welcome. Thank you so much, Louis. It's great to be here. And I knew the one …

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