The episode (9 minutes) was recorded at 1500 Central European Time, on August 30, 2022, with Ringr app.. Martin did the editing and post-production with the podcast maker, Alitu. The transcript is generated by Alitu.
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Welcome to Presentation skills.
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Q and A. My name is Martin Lindesco.
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Hi, Karinaridanius.
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Hello Martin.
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And hello all listeners.
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Now we're back in England.
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English again, Martin.
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Yes, that's right.
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Maybe it will be swingish sometimes also.
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Yes, we started this way.
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Well, we can say that it's back to basics,
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correct Presentation Skills Q and a short version.
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And we answer our listeners questions in presentation information and communication
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field, isn't it so? Yes, absolutely.
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Well, today it was mentioned that Elizabeth Berwicks, my wow colleague, should talk, but
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she has to focus on her company, so unfortunately she can't participate.
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So I think that's why we have both an old and a new start of this Pod and a new season.
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I think it's our third season.
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Well, yeah, that's right.
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And season is a nice way of doing, running and
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creating and marketing podcasts because you have some breaks between the seasons.
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Yes, you could see it as like in education or school at school or in other ways that you
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have certain numbers of episodes and then you have a break and then you have a new season.
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And it's pretty neat way of doing it and number it in a podcast player so people could
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follow along with seasons.
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So often you have a theme, for example, during
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the season.
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And we have a new topic today.
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But I also should say that the old stuff in
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this podcast is that we speak in English and we have gone back to our Pod episodes that we
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released on Fridays, every second week, uneven weeks.
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And the new things is that we focus on listeners from all over the world and people
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who will listen to English and get more skilled in presentation and communication.
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Yeah, and that could be listeners and fellow speakers and podcasters and others.
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And in your field also presentations skills that are not having English as a first
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language.
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We are in a way lucky.
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You could say that we have English early on in school, but not everyone has it.
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So when we did some, we checked the stats, statistics and we found that we are on top
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place back in the day in Taiwan, for example, in other areas, because they probably searched
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on the title Presentation Skills Q and A and also in plain English.
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And that got us thinking, what could we do?
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Absolutely.
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So we want questions.
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So I think the listeners should hit us with questions and mail that to Info at Peak new.
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Info at Peak new.
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Yes, and then we could do as a fun thing.
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Peak is standing for Presentation Information communication spelled in Swedish with an K.
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Yes, and New is pretty funny because that's now in English.
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But I know that it's something special in French that I will not mention because then it
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will become explicit.
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I think it's new or something like that.
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Okay, it could be like a slang.
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We go further today's topic then, Martin.
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Yeah, focus.
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What's focus for you?
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Yes, I'm interested in fundamental ideas, philosophy so when I think of focus,
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it's like your focus, your senses on something.
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You are not drifting away, you're not trying to escape reality, your focus and taking in
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things with your senses in your world.
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That's focused for me.
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But often when you think about it, it's focused that you're concentrating on a topic
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or an area or in a field or in a special area in your business, for example, that could be a
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focus also.
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So it's like a lens.
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I had this as one of my free words for the year to observe things and then to analyze and
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then try to monetize that.
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So you look around in the world using your
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senses, focus on important things, positive things and something that you could do
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something with and yeah, that's it.
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So that's what I'm thinking of.
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The word focus sounds great.
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I was thinking about something here and I remember time ago, for many years ago I
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worked as a singer, as a classical singer.
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And now when we are talking about this, I
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remember when I worked as a singer and I had a routine to manage my work and minimize stress
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and nervousness.
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So that was my focus, that kept me focused on
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the task.
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And I remember that I felt very professional
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and that felt strong and vivid in the situation.
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And this routine and this focus, it was on three very simple things.
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Would you like to hear?
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Yes, please.
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The first routine was sleep well and on the day when I was going to be on
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stage, I ate light and I exercise moderately.
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When these three parts were in place, I could
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climb mountains.
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I I know know it sounds easy, but when you're
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stressed it can be very hard.
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So I think that helped me to keep my focus and
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continue with this routine and that may be stronger.
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It sounds great.
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Some pieces of advice because I now imagine,
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for example before a big presentation, for example, you did it just in time and you were
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a bit nervous in a positive way and had time to sleep and then you rushed something to eat,
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quick bite and of course didn't do an exercise.
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Maybe walking to the venue or to the place, to the conference.
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But this is great to have that like a routine or a focus that you have is steps that is in a
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way easy to do if you do it and practice on it.
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Exactly.
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I have an idea here, maybe in this part we
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should give tips and advice on how you get sustainable focus when you perform or giving a
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speech or doing a presentation.
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What do you say about that?
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Yeah, that sounds good.
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We hopefully then have answers or could lead
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to other answers, colleagues in the field and so on.
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Fellow podcasters that are interested in this area and then you have questions if you do
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some introspection, maybe have thought about something or listen to episodes.
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So I think that's a great idea.
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Great.
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Martin well, we said before we should keep
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this podcast simple.
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Short and sweet.
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Short and sweet, yes.
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So I thank you for today.
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Martin yes, thank you too.
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Also.
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And also the listeners out there and the listener, the one individual that
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listen to these pieces of advice.
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And my call to action is to check out the new
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podcast app.
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For example, Fountain.
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Yes. Can you tell a little about this Fountain app?
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A little bit, and then we'll do it over time.
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It is a new podcast app that you could use and you could earn something called Satoshi's Bits
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of Bitcoin.
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You could also support other fellow
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podcasters, and you could also send a note, like a digital telegram with a booster gram.
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It's called so sending in Satoshi's and saying great advice or it was thoughtful thing, or I
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don't agree or whatever, or a quick hello.
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So this is the new kind of podcast app, or
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podcaster, as they say, sounds really fun.
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Well, then we say to our listeners now that they should have a really nice
