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Nick talks to psychotherapist Amy Morin about the impact of social tech on mental health

Amy Morin is a psychotherapist, international best-selling author of six books, and host of the mentally stronger podcast. Learn more about Amy: https://amymorinlcsw.com/

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What Will Happen with AI in 2024?

As 2024 gets underway, with pretty much the same worries and concerns that we ended 2023 with – since troubles don’t always pay that close attention to the human calendar – you would be pardoned for wondering if the AI hype will continue in 2024 at the same torrid pace as last year.  Will AI ...

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Nick speaks with researcher Stephen Turban about doing stand up comedy in Vietnamese

Nick speaks with an old friend Stephen Turban who is running a company in Vietnam....and doing stand up comedy in Vietnamese! Stephen has lived in Vietnam for 4 years he is the co-founder online research and education company Lumiere. After graduation, Stephen worked at McKinsey & Company in Beijing and Boston. He then ...

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5 Simple Principles for Better Speaking in 2024

Welcome to 2024. To me, the 2020s were supposed to be the stuff of science fiction, a world beyond what I expected to know.  I should be taking regular shuttles to the moon, now, to help the President there prepare her annual State of the Moon speech and thinking no more of it than a ...

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Is Small Talk a Waste of Time?

Why do we humans make small talk?  We spend a lot of time worrying about how to chit-chat amusingly, or captivatingly.  We complain when it seems trivial or a waste of time.  And we bemoan the stress of a classic cocktail party where such talk is the order of the day, because we may be ...

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Nick and Akash Karia discuss the pros of virtual communication

Akash Karia describes himself as an introvert who makes his living in an extroverted profession: keynote speaking. He has spoken in 15 countries on 4 continents, to audiences ranging from 5 people to 7,000 people. He has written 12 books which together have sold more than 250,000 copies, on the topics of communications, ...

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First, Let’s Kill All the Meetings

It’s a truism that people in organizations of all kinds suffer from too many meetings.  As we wind down 2023, a year that seemed to me to go by in a blur of meetings and a very elastic sense of time – sometimes slow, sometimes fast – let’s resolve to have fewer, more interesting meetings.  ...

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Does Grammar Matter?

Does grammar matter?  And did you have a teacher in your youth who insisted on drumming the rules of good grammar into you – and was that teacher on the stern and grumpy side of the instructional continuum?  My anecdotal research into these questions over the years have gradually built a composite picture of a ...

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Things I’ve Learned This Year

It's getting to the end of 2023, which was a momentous one for me in a number of ways, both personal and professional.  Most recently, I led the team that hosted a TEDx event.  That was a job, that was!  We hope to post the videos soon; the talks and performances were wonderful.  If you ...

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How to Interact with Audiences, Part 6

The last of a six-part series One of the consistent surprises for me in the keynote speaking world has been the reluctance of speakers to engage in significant audience interaction, despite the real benefits to both audience and speaker in doing so.  Some speakers want to give their canned speech and leave, of course; it ...

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