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Communications Episodes

April 16, 2025

Skills Coaching: Choosing the Right Communication Channel

Did you know that a majority of workers, about 86% per research, believe that the main reason for workplace failures are caused by bad communication? Did you also know that if you have good communication at work, employee retention increases...

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April 15, 2025

Skills Coaching: How to Write Better than AI

While using Artificial Intelligence effectively is a skill we need to have to be competitive, we also need to be good communicators who sounds authentic and who can have actual conversations with no AI help. In this episode you will learn key...

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April 9, 2025

Skills Coaching: 5 Steps to Become a Better Public Speaker

Does most of your work presentations feel like "death by PowerPoint" or turn into demos that get a bit too technical. Does speaking in public gives you an absolute fear you almost paralyzed?  Today you will learn the key simple elements to make a...

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Feb. 25, 2025

Skills Coaching: How to Improve Communication as an Introvert

Are you an introvert struggling to become a better communicator?  Or perhaps you have an introvert in your team and you want them to be able to speak with customers, give presentations? In this episode you will learn 3 pieces of advice for you as...

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Feb. 13, 2025

Skills Coaching: How to Suck Less at Listening

People speak at about 125 words per minute. People think at 900 words per minute.  So guess what, when you speak at 125 words, you as listener are filling in the gaps with any information you want to put in between. You are making assumptions,...

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Nov. 5, 2024

How (and When) to Speak Out: Matt Kohut

Politics, religion, diversity, issues with the law... there are so many topics that as people in positions of leadership, we refuse to talk about because we want to stay ouf of it we do not want to be controversial. But there are instances when is...

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June 25, 2024

Find your One Sentence: Mimi Goss

Communications are so tricky. When I ask people and teams I work with what skill do you want to improve on I often hear, "I want to be a better speaker or a writer." The thing is, when we try to become that person we think we should use eloquent long...

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Dec. 5, 2023

Skills Coaching: How Can I use my Body Language in Conversations?

This season I am officially lunching coaching opportunities for us to work together so you can master skills we discuss here, become a high performer in your career and lead ahigh performing team.  To get the details first of these limited...

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Oct. 3, 2023

Replay: Listening with Oscar Trimboli

This is a replay of an interview which aired in Nov 2021.      ---------------- My guest today, Oscar Trimboli ( ), shared some fascinating data that made me realized, we are barely listening to each other. Oscar is the author of Deep...

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Feb. 23, 2023

Skills Coaching: Explaining What you Do and Other Communication Tips

In this mini-episode, learn how to manage conflict, do a better pitch and answer the question "So, what do you do?" For more resources, sign up for the newsletter at Connect with me via

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Feb. 21, 2023

Verbal Communications: Sam Horn

Don’t you feel now that as we mostly engage our lives online that it is very difficult to communicate verbally?  We can be misunderstood, we have to deal with angry customers, pitching our ideas, or how to say no to others. We address all of...

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July 19, 2022

Presenting: Tamsen Webster

In today’s episode we will talk about Presenting, specifically how can we captivate audiences through our message and to be truly understood. Today you will lean from keynote speaker Tamsen Webster (). For over 20 years Tamsen has helped experts...

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Feb. 15, 2022

Body Language: Mark Bowden

Welcome to Season 5 of the Hardcore Soft Skills podcast.   Today we talk about Body Language with an expert who has been voted as a number one body language expert. Mark Bowden (https://truthplane.com/home/people/mark-bowden/ )  is a...

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Nov. 2, 2021

Listening: Oscar Trimboli

My guest today, Oscar Trimboli ( ), shared some fascinating data that made me realized, we are barely listening to each other. Oscar is the author of Deep listening and Breakthroughs, professional speaker and host of the apple award winning podcast...

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June 24, 2021

Writing: Leslie O'Flahavan

In this episode we talk about one of the skills most difficult to master: good writing.  My guest is Leslie O’Flahavan is a get to the point writer and experienced instructor. She is the owner of the company E-write () and she has provided...

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