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This episode of Minisoad Monday, sponsored by HostGator.
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Hey, Jordan Harbinger here.
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Welcome to Minisoad Monday.
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I m happy to be here with you, kicking off the week with something quick and actionable that you can implement right away that ll make you more magnetic and effective.
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Today, just little old me here with producer Jason, and I wanted to talk about filler words because, like,
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So, you can fix these.
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In fact, you should fix these because everything you do now, whether it s a presentation or of course a podcast or a video or something like that, everything you do now is a media channel, it s a brand.
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Even if you don t know it yet, and yeah I get it, even if you re not trying to be internet famous or whatever, sooner or later your work is going to gain some momentum.
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People are going to hear your voice, whether at work, in an interview, or a video, and since the dawn of language, and probably even before that, people have judged others based on the sound of their voice and the way they use it to communicate.
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In other words, it s not just what we say, but in the way in which we are able to or choose to say it.
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And lots of folks think that if they, well, just relax or practice enough, the problem s going to go away.
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But that s not really how it works.
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We have to practice deliberately to get rid of bad habits and filler words.
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We ve heard the shows on AOC in our regular format here with
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deliberate practice and working on specific skill sets.
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And even when we do this in our everyday speech, things like tension or stress or other hiccups, figuratively or literally, can send us scrambling right back into a bumbling mess.
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So here s what I recommend and here s how I got rid of most of my filler words over the course of a decade in broadcasting.
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Step one record one side your side of a phone conversation You can do this with simple apps like tape a call for the iPhone or call recorder for Skype And you should of course unfortunately check legality because often you re not allowed to record a conversation without permission of both parties depending on what state you re in so I recommend recording a side of a conversation with a telemarketer or your mother or somebody who won t know slash care, but otherwise do check legality and then step two
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Get a simple audio editor like Audacity, which is free on the web.
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And step three, go through and edit out all the filler words.
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All the ums, all the uhs, all the sos, and all that stuff.
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And step four, do this every week at least once for about a 20 minute call or 20 minute piece of audio, and you ll start to realize this is such a pain.
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And it s not the software, the editing is a pain.
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It s such a pain you ll start to use less of these types of words and further,
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When you re in conversation, remember that the other person is there to listen to you.
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You don t need to keep making little noises and sounds just to keep your turn in the conversation or to keep people s attention.
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If you re tempted to toss in a filler word, try filling the gap with absolutely nothing, just silence.
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This will greatly enhance your verbal presence and has the added benefit of adding more weight to the words that you use that actually mean something.
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For more on presence and power, definitely check out the Art of Charm Challenge.
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