Harley Finkelstein

I started by doing a lot of tiny little local podcasts and watching them over and over again.

You know, I know there's some people that hate watching themselves on camera.

Maybe this sounds like narcissistic or something, but I don't mind.

I actually like watching it because I was able to remove connector words, for example.

I say um a lot less than most people do because I've watched myself do it a lot.

And I'm like, I'm going to fix this particular issue.

That's the first thing.

The second thing is, I think a lot of people end up trying to emulate other speakers.

I see a lot of in tech, in particular, there was an era where like everyone kind of sounded like Gary Vaynerchuk for a little bit.

I know Gary well, he's a friend.

I think Gary is an incredible, you know, speaker and his keynotes are legendary.

But that's his style.

And then you see other people that try to do the whole Rogan thing or the Shane thing or the Tim Ferriss thing.

And I never tried to be somebody else.

I wanted to be the version of me, which is a little bit excited, not always as perfectly articulate.

I speak very quickly.

I want to make sure everyone understands me.

But I've sort of developed my own style of it.

And maybe the third thing, which is probably obvious, but...

great mentors, people that I deeply look up to when it comes to speaking.