The Truth in Ten

How Do You Stand Out When You're Small & Quiet?   Greta Thunberg started a global movement and her words have inspired millions of young folks to speak truth to power and act, but she's a reluctant influencer who doesn't want the spotlight. As I work through Penguin's Green Ideas Series as part of a 20 books in 20 days challenge, I'm starting with book 1 - a short book containing excerpts of Greta...

How Do You (Really) Connect With An Audience?   This episode focuses on the hero in every good story: The audience. As presenters, especially in business, we often spend too much time focusing on what we want to say, and not enough time focused on what our audience needs to hear. In this episode we ponder Grammy award winning musician Jacob Collier's take, on how to truly connect with an audience....

How Do Opinion Writers Win Hearts & Minds?   That's the challenge that faces New York times opinion writer Thomas L. Friedman each day. Tom is a master at the art of provocative persuasion, and I had the pleasure of meeting him a few years back in Minnesota. He's the author of "Thank You For Being Late", the recipient of 3 Pulitzer Prizes and, most interestingly, the most engaged journalist (in te...

How Do The Best Speechwriters Get Things Done?   There's an important client presentation coming up and you find out at the last moment that you need to give the opening presentation, but you've got NOTHING prepared! What do you do? Is there anything worse? Well fear not, in this episode I'm going to look at a rule used by Barack Obama's former speechwriter, for helping you deal with that exact si...

How Do You Give A Talk You've Never Given Before?   That was the challenge facing Steve Jobs 20 years ago when he was asked by the president of Stanford University, John Hennessy, to give the 2005 commencement address. The only problem was that Steve Jobs, arguably the greatest communicator the business world has ever seen, had never given a talk like this before. Where did he start? What did he d...

How Do You Make Education More Entertaining?   In the 1960's TV had a problem. Kids were watching hundreds of hours of ads and cartoons but they weren't learning anything. That was until Joan Ganz Cooney came along. She revolutionised TV and invented a whole new genre when she launched Sesame Street in 1969 against all the odds. She quickly became one of the most influential people in TV. The stor...

What Would Happen If I Got an AI to Interview Me?   Let's find out...   I just asked an AI to INTERVIEW ME and here's what happened!!! 🤯 Everything in this clip is real and the only thing I have edited is the sound quality. (I can't export audio yet from the LLM so I needed to use a lav mic).    I gave the AI model my social media posts, my Linkedin profile and my podcast as a basis for her to as...

Why Do Great Talks Do Six Things?   How do you connect with an audience who has no idea who you are? And more importantly, how can you inspire an audience to do something which they didn't expect to do - especially if that concerns giving you a lot of money?   This episode is a fast but thoughtful deep-dive into the art and science of persuasive storytelling according to civil rights lawyer Bryan...

How Do You Write Speeches Which Change Lives?   In this episode we put the spotlight on one of the world's greatest speechwriters - Theodore "Ted" Sorensen - so that we can understand how he wrote such iconic speeches for President John F. Kennedy. What was his process? And what can we learn from it to become better communicators ourselves? There was a simple framework which Ted used, which I'd lo...

How Do You Turn a Presentation into a Performance?   In the second episode of  The Truth in Ten Podcast , host Jeremy Connell-Waite takes you on a journey to discover how the world's most famous spoken word poet, Amanda Gorman ,  overcame her fear of public speaking (and a speech impediment).   Just two weeks after hundreds of protesters stood on the exact same spot and stormed the Capitol Buildin...

How Do You Turn a Moment into a Movement?   In this pilot episode of The Truth in Ten Podcast , host Jeremy Connell-Waite takes you behind the scenes of a ten-minute presentation which won not one, but two Academy Awards! It's a presentation which Jeremy has given many times himself, and he shares some insights about where the presentation came from, and what you can learn from it.   "Sorry I gave...