The White Rabbit

David Beckett, a pitch coach from The Netherlands, talks about the business of pitch coaching (one of the niches of presentation coaching), including how he got started, what he has learned from the audience members, etc.

Dr Nil Madi goes into the pre-existing emotional state of your audience members before you even begin your presentation, and the folly of thinking you can control the fluctuations in that emotional state during your presentation.

Taner Albayrak, a co-founder of a university in Istanbul, goes into the value of having good communication skills on board a ship particularly, and in your career in general.

Memet Yazıcı returns to the podcast to talk about the founder-led sales transition and what that transition means for the psychology of the founder and for the message that is going out to the customer.

Matt interviews Istanbul attorney Can Işıktaç on regulatory tit-for-tat. In a future episode, Alper and Matt will explore this issue further, and what we can take away from it in a presentations and communications setting.

Alper goes into the four things you need to consider in the early stages of preparing your presentation. These are things you need to do before opening your slide design software. And oh, by the way, make sure you are not using Prezi.

With this episode, the podcast reaches its 4th anniversary. Alper goes into dealing with nervousness, and specifically, the importance of reframing it as what it is. And, by the way, don't ever expect your nervousness to go away, no matter how experienced you are. Alper has been doing a webinar for four years, and still gets nervous, and Matt, even after doing this podcast for four years, stil...

Matt and Alper dive into the subject of POV (point of view), it being a significant part of Matt's business.

Owned-media expert Matthew Rawle goes into the error of thinking you need large numbers to make a newsletter work, how much to talk about the technical details of the problem you solve vs. how much to show pictures of your dog, and how to make a newsletter work if you are a corporate employee.

Brad Farris returns to the podcast to discuss the annual setting of goals, the importance of being able to zoom in and out on those goals, the importance of being able to keep both of those views in your head at the same time, and the value of flipping the "have-do-be" script we all tend to use.

Wes Wheless comes back on the show to talk about the 4 techniques he used to build trust with a new audience. In his case the new audience came after a business pivot, but these four techniques are equally relevant to anyone building trust with an audience in a presentation. These 4 techniques also form one of the major frameworks he describes in his upcoming book, so listen up, we are getting a p...

Ben Steele returns to the show to talk more about LLMs, including how the addition of context can mitigate, but not solve, the inherent problem of averageness, ChatGPT on the dating scene, and various ethical angles on the role LLMs play in our lives.

Returning guest Yalin Yuregil talks about selling software across borders, especially into Europe, including some of the factors you'll need to consider for your organization.

Chrissie Bettencourt, CEO of a company specializing in remote communication and a certified neuroplastician, gives some great tips on presenting or proposing an idea when you are up against a local incumbent, and on how to increase engagement in remote presentations.

Ben Steele goes into AI and where it is useful for our presentations, and where it merely makes us sound more average and flat. In the process, he brings forth some excellent, and very artistic, turns of phrase.

Alper and Matt discuss the ramifications of the popular phrase "provide value," with Matt being highly suspicious of the phrase.

Repeat guest Wes Wheless goes into a business pivot he had to make. Alper, Wes, and Matt discuss what presenters can learn from this pivot.

Guest Ebru Demirel discusses face-to-face meetings, the concerns of potential customers, and more things involved with growing a business in another country, even when you are already well-established in your own.

Matt offers up a real-life example of a potentially explosive conversation, and Alper helps him sort out his understanding of what's going on and how to put those techniques to use in presentations. Also, Matt tests a contrarian opinion, but Alper quickly shoots it down and sends Matt back to the drawing board.

In this episode, Lyuba Levchuk, president of Istanbul Toastmasters, goes into her public speaking journey and gives some tips on making your next presentation the best it can be.

You know how sometimes you run into people who have done all the "right" stuff -- taken the trainings, joined a public speaking club, even practicing in front of the mirror ad infinitum -- but they still have that nagging feeling that something might be holding them back? Well, in this episode Alper digs deep into 4 of these "advanced blockers," mindsets that might be getting i...

In this episode, Matthew Rawle discusses owned media and the ways it can better help you connect with your audience.

Sevil Kubilay, a recent arrival in Startup Land, goes into The Transition (going from corporate life to startup life), the hesitance to put herself into her company's story, and a common misconception of Japan's ikigai.

In this episode, guest Pranav Kale riffs on how to find your big idea, the importance of knowing what your big idea is, how to sync it with the words the market might be using to describe it, and, surprise surprise, what all this has to do with Subway sandwiches.

In this episode, guest Nick Richtsmeier talks about how the internet is affecting the mindset of your audience members. This is a great episode for beginning to understand the mindset your audience members are in long before they even show up in the room for your presentation.