Yasir Khan
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254 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 4 Mar
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So you want to treat the stage as your entire life.
Every single place you go, you're performing.
So wouldn't you wanna put up the best performance wherever you go?
I think the answer is- Totally.
When you open your mouth, that is your brand. Because what you say is what is reflected about your business. Emotion creates devotion. And storytelling, that's what makes people feel something.
There are three R's to be remembered. The first R is... So if you constantly need to practice your public speaking just to feel good about yourself, that's not a public speaking issue. That's a self-esteem issue. For a lot of people, the fear doesn't come from the speaking itself. It's how they perceive themselves.
If you want to transport people somewhere in your story, one of the most powerful words you can use is...
I'm really excited to be here, Hala. And you might not know how I met you the first time or how I found out about you. It wasn't about LinkedIn. I was looking up how to start a podcast and I stumbled on a speech of yours from MIT from years ago. And I thought it was going to be about how to start a podcast, but it ended up being about your personal story. I watched the entire hour of it.
And then I found you on LinkedIn. And I still remember you had a quote in there. You said something like, At the time, I wasn't young and profiting. I was young and pissed. And it just made me laugh in the moment. And there was a connection I felt. That's why I went and looked you up on LinkedIn. So it's a pleasure to be here.
And it worked. You got my attention.
Verbal communication is how you show up to the world. When you open your mouth, that is your brand. And you'll be shocked, Hala. In fact, you probably won't be shocked with the amount of people you talk to. How many people are not careful of the words that come out of their mouth? Because what you say is what is reflected about your business.
So if you knew that, wouldn't you be a lot more careful of what came out of your mouth, what you said, what you wrote? That's why just having that finesse on your words, making sure when you're on stage, people remember you, It's more important than it's ever been.
Yeah, the definition of public speaking isn't just being on stage. It's talking to someone at some time. If you are talking to someone, which I imagine if your listeners are listening, they're talking to people, right? Unless they're locked in a basement somewhere. You are going to do public speaking. And every single time you do that, you are representing yourself and your brand.
What do you want people to interpret about you? How do you want them to perceive you? How do you want them to perceive your company? All of that is public speaking. So you want to treat the stage as your entire life. Every single place you go, you're performing. So wouldn't you want to put up the best performance wherever you go? I think the answer is yes.
Yeah, I was the least likely person to become a public speaker. In fact, if you were in my classroom when I was in third grade, you would have seen me run to the bathroom right before my presentation and you wouldn't see me come back out. And that was the thing. People knew, hey, Yasser's turn, he's not going to show up. And I started failing. So it was really affecting my education.
And as I grew up, eventually my parents said, this kid is just, he doesn't say anything in meetings. He doesn't say anything in family gatherings. What do we do? Let's send him to a different country. That'll open him up. So now they spent thousands of dollars, sent me to Canada. The only thing that opened up was their wallet because I did not learn a thing. I came all the way here in Canada.
I was still introverted, but now I had no friends. So eventually, Hala... You become so lonely and the pain of it grows so much that you become desperate. You're willing to do anything. So I just Googled, how do I make friends? That's what I wanted. I wanted friends. And the first thing that popped up was something called a Toastmasters Club. Have you heard of that before?
Okay. Well, a kid from Pakistan, I hadn't heard of it. I thought it was one of two things. One, a place where people sit in a circle and make a toast. Or two, a place to get a grilled cheese sandwich. That's what I thought it was going to be. So I show up, I walk in, and there's 35 people all in their mid-50s. And it says, Toastmasters, learn public speaking. No, this is not what I signed.
I came here to make... No, no, no, no. Public speaking, that's not my... I took the fastest U-turn you've ever seen in your life. But then before I could leave, the woman who was hosting the club, her name was Karen Knight, she saw me. And she said, hey, we've got a new guest. Come on up and introduce yourself. So there I am, new country. I don't know anyone.
And you would have seen me sweating, walking all the way to the front of the stage. To this day, I don't know what I said. I blurt out four words. I sat back down and I said, Yasmin, this is why you never leave the house. This is why you should just get yourself a PlayStation. And that's it. That's your personality.
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