Yasir Khan
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254 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 4 Mar
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That's all you charge? She was skeptical of me because of my price. I have never in my life heard that. After we worked together, she said, Yasir, I would have paid you $25,000 for the work we did together. What the heck are you doing? I said, listen, I'm a public speaking coach. There's a million of them out there. Why would you pay me 25 grand? She said, you know what made my brand successful?
I have the only full body deodorant in the world. Everyone else has just the deodorant for the armpits. The reason my brand was successful is because I wasn't trying to be better. I was trying to be different. So Yasser, be better at being different. Be better at being different. That's why I went to working just with CEOs. I bought the domain Speak Like a CEO. All of my clients are just CEOs.
That's how I profited in life. So be better at being different.
Speaklikeaceo.com. And if you want to find me on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube, it's speakingwithyasa.
Thank you.
I've had a change of heart in this. I used to think you have to talk louder to be more confident, right? But then I realized if you're always loud and just talking like this the entire time, eventually it gets really annoying. But if you're always quiet like this all the time and you look timid. So the key is not just volume, the key is variety in volume. So you go up and down and up and down.
Listen, I have ADHD. I have a million thoughts running in my head and all of them want to come out at the same time. So I'm just like you. I want to talk fast. I was once invited to do a seminar on public speaking anxiety. And I've done this seminar a million times. So I show up with my 17 different things to do to overcome your public speaking anxiety.
I present in front of 200 people and immediately people say, wow, Yasir, you covered so much information. That was absolutely amazing. One of the guys says, Yasir, I'm about to go next after you. That's exactly what I needed because I was so anxious in the moment. I said, amazing. So I went out, got some coffee, sat back in the room.
He shows up on stage and hala, I can see the notes shaking in his hand in the moment. So he slowly walks onto the lectern. He puts his notes there. He starts speaking, going through his slides and he's stuttering. And then eventually he hits this word that he can't really pronounce properly. And he just puts the clicker down and walks off stage. I can't understand why.
So afterwards I see him in the parking lot and I say, hey, what happened? He said three words I'll never forget. I couldn't remember. I couldn't remember. And that's when I realized what's the point of me talking fast, high energy, covering these 17 points when he couldn't remember it when he needed it most. That's when I learned to slow it down. So my coach has this great saying, Craig Valentine.
He says, I'd rather give you three things you remember than 10 things you forget. I've really narrowed down the amount of material I share, but I also try to vary the pace a little bit as well when I talk.
Yeah, talking fast builds momentum. Okay, we're going somewhere. Come along with me. But then I want you to think about this for a second. Then you slow the pace down. And every time you want to make a point, this is one of the biggest challenges people have in storytelling. They skip over the most important part of the story because they're going so fast.
So if you really want people to listen, slow down and you whisper. What happens when you slow down? What happens when you whisper? People immediately lean forward. If you look at any of my talks, you'll say I'm super high energy and that'll immediately drop the energy. And then people feel it in that moment.
I've had a change of heart in this. I...
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