motor-mouth podcast

Hmmm...now I know what those folks meant by saying I should talk slower (see previous post). Sometimes hearing your own voice is the strangest thing and I've had the frightening experience of hearing my own voice - eeeek! I was approached by the Chris Pirillo Show to do a spot for their podcast. This is a great show and Chris is a funny and effective interviewer. They get about 50,000 downloads for every interview, which is impressive.

Unfortunately, the day they wanted to do the interview was the day I was on a long trip - from Seattle to San Francisco for a meeting in the morning and then to L.A. for an afternoon meeting. The only chance I had was to do the interview from a car in a parking lot in L.A. where there were a lot people of all sorts walking by and peering in at some guy yelling into his cell phone while balancing a laptop on his lap.

So, with spotty signal at best and not knowing the questions beforehand but knowing there was a time limit I switched into motor-mouth mode. They did a great job of making me sound somewhat reasonable but I definitely need to work on my act. I used to do quite a bit of public speaking, having led the Phi Beta Kappa Association of New York (and that was a lot of blabbing) - but I guess it's one thing to be able to control your timing and quite another to feel like you need to get everything out before they cut you off.

I guess I need some training on this. The Northwest Entrepreneur Group has a pub night (which I just returned from) where selected folks are given 3 minutes to present everything or the gong lady strikes the gong. But it is a pub night and, given the atmosphere, folks are encouraged to go overtime so the gong can kick in. I think I'll shoot for that to get some practice in next time...