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showing up as the best 2D version of your 3D self.
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We are going to talk a little bit about the science behind presentation fitness, and what's happening inside your body.
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Hey, fellow humans.
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Welcome back to the Virtual Presentation Skills podcast.
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This is the show where we mix professional wisdom.
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A dash of humor and a lot of really cool brain science.
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Today's topic is the Fit Presenter, how movement, posture, and energy shape your 2D presence.
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Now, this is a really interesting topic because if you think about it, we are presenting from a 3D world to a 2D world, and our job is to extract the best 2D version of you.
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I'm Kimberly Gilbert, one of your co-hosts.
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And I'm Kathy Godinas, your other co-host.
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We are so excited to get started today.
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So let's just jump right in with presentation Fitness, which by the way is our topic of focus this week.
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We like to talk about presentation fitness in a different way.
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It's not just vanity, there's obviously some vanity involved for how you show up on screen, how you show up for your audience, how you show up for yourself, your ring light, all the camera angles and everything else we talk about, but it's really velocity how efficiently.
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Is your energy actually traveling through the lens? We're diving deep into this subject because we've become very passionate about sitting versus standing, and the tone of your voice and your energy through the camera.
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If you think about it, your audience only sees about 20% of you on screen, and when we started.
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Researching information for this podcast, I thought, wow, I hadn't even thought of it that way, but it really is about 20%.
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But guess what? They feel 100% of your energy.
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So we'll talk about posture, breath, more micro movements and how those can directly shape your presence as well as your stamina.
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I don't know about you, but it takes a heck of a lot of stamina to be in Zoom calls all day long, every day call after call, after call.
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Whether you're leading a global team.
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Like I am teaching on Zoom, like we do as a company pitching from your home office.
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We do that all the time, right, Kathy? Oh, yes.
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This is about showing up as the best 2D version of your 3D self.
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We are going to talk a little bit about the science behind presentation fitness, and what's happening inside your body.
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Kathy, you have a best practice for sitting versus standing right? Yes, I do.
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For years I've always been sitting at my desk because I only had that kind of a desk.
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But I will be talking in a little bit about my hydraulic desk and what a difference it has made in.
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The way that my body feels.
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Ooh.
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Okay, good.
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Okay.
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I know ahead myself After about 30 sitting your blood flow through your lower body drops by about 50%.
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I was a little bit blown away when I read this, and it does actually mean less oxygen means slower thinking and lower vocal power.
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So guess what? If your brain is already slowing down, the less oxygen your brain is going to really start slowing down.
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That also could attribute to the afternoon sleepies, because I would sit all morning.
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Mm-hmm.
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Whether I was in a Zoom or not, but sit all morning and then by, I don't know, two o'clock in the afternoon, I was so tired.
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You have to have the caffeine break or the mm-hmm.
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Get up and walk or whatever, but mm-hmm.
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Could attribute to that.
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Yes, I completely agree.
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And if you think about your diaphragm, which is the muscle that fuels your breath, it acts like a bellows.
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When you hunch it actually compresses when you sit tall or stand, there's a couple of combinations we'll talk about.
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It expands and pumps oxygen into your bloodstream.
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The more oxygen equals sharper focus, clearer tone, and potentially steadier nerves.
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What I've learned after coaching 8,500 humans in over 33 countries is that something has the potential to throw all of us off of our game no matter what.
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Yeah, a couple of those instances recently, for me personally, but because I have recovery techniques, it really ended up being no big deal.
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I had a moment of panic for just, oh, I don't know, like.
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8.37
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seconds.
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But other than that, I was able to recover, but I was also standing and that makes a big difference for me.
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I know a lot of people would not agree with this, but Stanford has a human performance lab and they found posture changes your brain chemistry, and I thought this was also really interesting research.
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Slouching elevates your cortisol, which is the stress.
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The stress hormone that clouds your memory.
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So we wanna stay away from that Slouching, whether you're sitting or standing upright posture raises your testosterone just slightly, probably more for some of us than others.
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But it does increase your confidence as well as your assertiveness.
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And I know this is absolutely true for me.
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And even some of your micro expressions will change with your posture.
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Like right now, I have my shoulders.
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A little bit hunched over.
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My facial muscles are slack.
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Well, I don't know.
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It might be because of my age, but we'll not go with that.
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No, your eye contact weakens and it's not a good look on you.
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I have to say the tighter you can keep everything in your body.
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Especially your diaphragm and Kathy and we're talking about this pre-show because my chiropractor is trying to train me to focus on diaphragm.
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I keep asking for one of those little, I don't know what they're called.
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They're like little vests or something that help you keep your shoulders back.
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I saw one on Amazon and I thought, oh, oh, I need that because they said I'm really.
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Starting to move toward tech neck and if I'm not careful with re corrective measures it could get bad pretty quickly.
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So I'm all about focusing on that diaphragm.
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And Kathy, what did you say earlier about diaphragm? Well, first of all, I said, you have to suck your gut in all day, but that's not what you're talking about.
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You're talking about the diaphragm, and it takes practice to actually, get those muscles in your brain and tighten them.
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Mm-hmm.
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Making sure that's what you're feeling.
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It takes practice.
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Yes, I'm in full practice mode right now.
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Well, I'm getting there.
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I'm getting there.
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I have my gut in, but that, I know that's not it, but Right.
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It's just, it really is.
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It is a paradigm shift.
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Mm-hmm.
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And I'm learning as I go.
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I'll certainly share more with you the more I learned from my chiropractor, but he has coached me.
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Get outta bed in the morning.
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Think about your diaphragm and keeping your diaphragm tight.
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So look it up.
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It could be fun for you to research that information as well.
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It's not just sucking in your gut, which we thought was funny.
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Your posture plus your breath plus movement.
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Plus recovery equals presentation power.
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If one variable is off, I'll tell you, your entire online camera presence will suffer.
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That is just like the group virtual office audit, which is.
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30 minutes, seven steps.
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If you fail in any two of those seven categories, I guarantee you are not having productive meetings.
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You're losing your audience.
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They're not paying attention to you.
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They are tuning out.
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They are not going to receive the most beautiful part of your message, which comes with the stickiness and the emotion of your delivery.
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Kimberly, what I really like about this section that you just talked about is it's the why, so why would you want to, get your diaphragm in check and stand up and do all these things? It's the science behind the why, and I think that's super important for people.
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Oh, I love that.
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Let's move on to the next section where we are talking about the sitting and standing sweet spot.
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Kathy, I'd like you to speak directly to this because I know you have a fun new toy.
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Mm-hmm.
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And I'd love to hear more about it.
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I haven't actually seen it yet.
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No, you haven't seen it yet.
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In the past we all had, most of us had sitting desks.
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So we would sit there between six and nine hours a day, get up, go to the restroom, grab coffee, then we sit.
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Some more.
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Our bodies would adapt to that shape.
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So your hips get tight.
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Your shoulders, as you mentioned, they roll forward and then suddenly your neck is the letter C, which is the tech neck that you're talking about.
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But there are ways to fix it.
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So when you are sitting, if that's what you have to do, then make sure that you're chair height.
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Equals 90 degrees, so your knees are at a 90 degree angle.
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And keep your feet flat on the floor.
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Don't tuck them.
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And your ladies, you're not supposed to cross your legs all the time.
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I do that, but I try not to do it too much.
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But also too, make sure that the top of the computer screen is at eye level so that you're looking straight ahead, not up and not down.
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And then also pull your shoulders down and back as if you're sliding your shoulder blades into your back pockets.
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Mm-hmm.
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And that actually is a nice stretch too.
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Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm.
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And it just helps.
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But that alignment opens your chest and frees your breath, Kim.
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I'm doing it right now.
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It feels so much better.
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I was starting to get into a little bit of a relaxed oh, position.
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And then if I am not mindful of it and I look at myself on the screen, I can see the difference and I start thinking, oh, is that what my audience is seeing as well? Well, and that's a good point.
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If you feel like that is something that you do, practice it and then mm-hmm.
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Record yourself on Zoom and see how you are after a two minute talk or a five minute or whatever.
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Mm.
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Just to see, just to see how your, your body automatically, handles itself.
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Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm.
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Oh, great idea.
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Um, great.
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Thank you.
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But what I did is I bought a hydraulic desk because I was having some nerve issues in my legs sitting too long.
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So I researched and bought.
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A hydraulic desk.
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It's just a flat desk.
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It's not fancy and it wasn't expensive.
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It was like $119.
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I had to put it together and I bought it through Amazon and it really, it wasn't very difficult to do.
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And there's two settings.
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You can put it wherever you want, but if you wanted to create settings, you could do your standing and sitting.
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So all you have to do is press a button.
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Wait, did you actually use the tools yourself? What tools to the tools to put it together.
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Well, okay.
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My brother did help me.
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You have to have two people.
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Okay.
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It's just, I would not be able to, I would just sit there and cry until somebody came to help me, quite honestly.
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Oh.
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Because I just, all the little, the screws and the bolts and the nuts, and I don't even know what they're called, but, oh, they just don't ever seem to fit together.
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Even if I have the directions, it seems like the manufacturer will always just send a random part and I'll be thinking, oh no, oh no, where does this go? And then it ends up, backwards or upside down or whatever.
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This was actually really pretty organized the way it came.
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Hmm.
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I did have my brother help me just because it was too heavy to take upstairs into my room, so it's, oh, okay.
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It's a two person job really because of the weight of it.
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But, I have thoroughly enjoyed it and I stand up way more, I do not have the pain that I used to have, so it's super exciting.
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And by the way, I put this in the Amazon affiliate cart, so we'll have Oh, good.
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A link in the show notes for you.
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Mm-hmm.
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But we do have to say it.
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Anyway, so when you're standing, there's a few tips, standing changes your vocal resonance by as much as 25%.
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Air moves freely, your diaphragm expands, and you naturally project more authority.
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That's huge.
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So keep one foot slightly ahead of the other, like an athlete ready to move, unlock your knees, and then shift weight every few minutes because it keeps the energy alive without fidgeting.
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So the best practice is what they, what's called the 90 minute cycle.
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So sit, stand, stretch, repeat every 90 minutes, reset your posture and your breathing.
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What do you think about that? I think that's really good information.
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Yeah, I love it.
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I naturally sit, stand, stretch, lift weights sometimes between meetings.
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If I'm in a webinar where I'm not presenting or I'm not the trainer, I do actually lift weights and do squats.
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You know how I am about squat? I know.
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I know I've never put this into a structure though, and good Lord if, just give me a spreadsheet with bullet points and God bless you.
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If it's color coded, I will like you even more.
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This just gives me a nice visual Yeah, for 90 minutes and it's.
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Also great to let your eyes take a break and look into the landscape.
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We talked about this in a previous episode, and we're hoping to have a guest coming up that can talk specifically to this subject because it's really interesting that our bodies need a break.
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Our breath needs a break brain.
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Our brains our eyesight.
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I was just going to mention compression socks.
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Now, these compression socks are socks that I use, and I don't know if you've considered this for standing all day, but they help so much with blood flow.
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And I'll tell you once you get them on, you are never going to wanna take these off.
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I always thought that these were just for old people.
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You'd always see old people walking around, you know, kind of hobbling around and they had these weird socks on.
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I just would think, oh, oh, that, that's never going to be me.
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Mm-hmm.
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Not doing that, not going there.
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But when I started running half marathons, it was recommended I maybe try compression socks and I bought a pair that, of course, you can guess what color it is, right.
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Bright pink.
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They're so cute.
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I love them.
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So that makes me happy to have bright pink compression socks.
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And I don't wear them every day, but if I know I'm going to be standing and sitting all day long and not be able to take very many breaks between, I put those babies on, and by the end of the day, now they're hard to get on.
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They're hard to get on, but I used them in the airport, or when I go on a long flight.
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Ooh, that's a good idea.
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That's when I've used them.
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I haven't done it at my desk.
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I hadn't thought about it, actually.
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Well, a couple of days ago, I was up all day standing almost all day.
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I didn't really feel like sitting, for some reason.
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Actually, my glutes were a little bit sore from my workout, and at the end of the day.
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My legs were so tight and I thought, wow.
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Note to sell.
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I'm gonna put that on the Go Live Host checklist.
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Some of these materials you receive with the group Virtual Office audit, which you can join at www.virtualofficeaudit.com.
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Let's move on to your presenter fitness toolkit.
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This obviously is a verbal toolkit, but it's nice to have a reminder.
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You can rewind back to the beginning of this particular section and go over these.
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Micro moves, which we have been using in our training programs for years and years I have in the past actually had humans in training programs put a book on the top of their head.
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And walk across the room.
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I mean, I know that's old school etiquette training, but that's how I was trained when I started in the modeling industry years ago, we had to walk across a very large room without dropping that book off of our head.
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I don't know of a better way to start to understand your posture and where you lean from one side to another.
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And when I had a recent coaching client here in my studio, we did that for him.
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Well, that's awesome.
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I know.
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It was really interesting.
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That's how I grew up because of our.
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Uh, my mother didn't want us to slouch, or hunt.
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So we did the book thing too, right? Exactly.
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So you could take a moment for, five different items.
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These are just really quick, so I'm going to list them.
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Spine reset.
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Shoulder rolls, diaphragmatic breathing desk, push off and water rule.
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So if you need a marker, you can always go back to this list just for a quick marker and then we'll go over them.
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Your spine reset is something you can do really, really easily.
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You can interlace your fingers, reach overhead.
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Stretch tall.
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I love to breathe in four, hold for four and breathe out for six seconds.
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It taps your parasympathetic nervous system and it instantly calms you.
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I'm not kidding.
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I didn't believe this when I first learned this technique, but I use it all the time now.
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And your shoulder rolls, just basically what they sound like.
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Just five forward, five backward.
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It just loosens up your shoulders because a lot of us tend to hold a lot of stress in our neck.
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Maybe do that before you unmute and before you go live with your camera.
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Unless it's expected.
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You take a break during a session.
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I know a lot of clients have all day sessions, and we plan in the run of show the areas where it's acceptable to be on camera and stretching, and everybody does it together.
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Your diaphragmatic breathing, one hand on your belly, one on your chest.
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Inhale through your nose until your belly expands and exhale through your mouth.
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Now, this is just the very beginning of understanding your diaphragm and how to hold it tight.
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Trust me, you'll want to look up, some additional information on Google specifically about your diaphragm.
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I'm not an x.
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Spurred, as I mentioned earlier, I'm still learning these techniques right now through my chiropractor.
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Your desk, push off.
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Just basically your palms on your desk.
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Lean forward, slightly open up your chest, and this is the perfect antidote to what a lot of people call your laptop hunch, which I really, really wanna stay away from.
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This is a really great water rule.
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I don't remember what episode it was, but we did talk about hitting your water macro, which Kathy knows I'm a complete pano when it comes to hitting the water macro every day.
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If you stop to refill your water.
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Just move around for an extra 30 seconds for me, I walk downstairs to fill my water bottle or my cup.
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Today I am actually drinking AG one.
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I'm testing.
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It looks delicious.
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It's very green and very weird looking, but yes, it gets a lot of rave reviews, so we're not going to support that product yet.
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But that is what I'm testing today.
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And then just walk around for an extra 30 seconds.
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Sometimes people use their smartwatches.
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I know my.
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Daughter uses hers and she's got that little beeper going off for different cues all day long.
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So just think about deep breathing, stretching, and resetting your energy so you can show up for your audience in the best 2D version of the three DU.
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Thanks Kimberly.
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The other thing we can think about is that your workspace can work for you or against you.
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And we've talked about some of these things in other episodes, but we always talk about lighting.
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Always face the light, have it in front of you versus behind you.
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Mm-hmm.
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And natural daylight is best.
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An LED ring light is second best.
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A harsh overhead light creates fatigue and dark eyeshadow.
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So we don't want to do that.
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We don't want you to look like you're in the witness protection program.
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The other thing that I think is interesting is.
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The temperature, maybe keep the room a little bit cooler because it keeps your alertness higher.
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And sometimes when you are in a warm room, I don't know about you, but if I am in a room that's too warm, I tend to get kind of sleepy.
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So if I'm supposed to be on it presenting, listening, I would want to be in a cooler room also.
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How many times have we done that when we're driving? I was driving back from my dad's a couple of months ago, and I left later than I had anticipated, and oh my goodness, it was.
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It was cold and it was snowing, but I was starting to get very, very drowsy.
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I rolled down the windows, I turned up the radio.
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Mm-hmm.
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I was chewing gum.
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Anything to just stay awake.
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But I think that cooler temperature, like you said, is a really, really good point.
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For people who are working from home and you have the option to cool down that temperature and make.
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Sure that you're up and you're moving around and you have good energy flow.
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I love that.
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Thank you.
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The other thing to think about that Kimberly already mentioned was your, was giving your eyes a break.
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So every 20 minutes, look 20 feet away for 20 seconds.
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It's called the 20 20 20 rule to rest your eye muscles.
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Mm-hmm.
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And the other thing is, sound.
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Sometimes when I'm in my home office, it's very quiet here and I kinda feel lonely, I guess.
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Mm-hmm.
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Is a good way to put it.
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And so, if you're tired of the silence, play some instrumental music or nature sounds at a low volume before your sessions.
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It can help reset your focus and regulate your breathing.
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You know what? I'm gonna dig that sound machine out of the closet.
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Oh,, I don't have a sound machine, so, oh, well I have, I think I was gifted a sound machine several years ago, but I didn't think about using it for myself.
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I usually have it available for guests, but I am going to try that because it's like it's a white noise.
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Well, it's, it's a sound machine, so it plays sounds of nature.
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I can program it to, yeah, the ocean, the train.
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Water noises like in an aquarium, you know, those sorts of things.
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So I, I think I'm gonna try that because I love the crickets.
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I think that sounds great.
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The only thing with the water noise is it would probably make me wanna go to the bathroom too often.
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That has happened to me.
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I was on hold with the client and it was water.
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That was what I was listening to, and I thought, oh my goodness, I can't listen to this very long.
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Okay, well, that's a good recommendation.
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I think I'll stay away from the water noise.
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I'm, I'm just gonna go straight for those crickets.
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Yeah, there you go.
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If you start thinking about your environment as part of your fitness routine, I guarantee you will have a paradigm shift and everything.
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We talk about, everything we teach with all of our training programs and all the products and services we offer.
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A lot of what we focus on is a paradigm shift.
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I was in a meeting with somebody just the other day, actually a group virtual office audit, and when we were finished, he emailed me and said, oh my goodness, Kimberly.
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All this time I've been thinking I was a really, really fantastic, very high level presenter and he is really good.
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He's got a very charismatic voice and he presents well.
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But he realized going through the group virtual office audit all of the mistakes that he was making, and it was really humbling and I did not expect that kind of reaction.
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One I know to be true is if we have senior leaders questioning how they're showing up in 2D, this means that the initiatives have not started even at the executive level to require virtual offices to be audited, which takes us into virtual policies, and we'll talk about that in a couple of weeks.
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Let's bring this all together.
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When you move with intention, you present with intention.
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You use your checklist, you plan your day.
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You are aware of your breath and your body alignment.
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Your energy becomes absolutely contagious, even if it's through pixels.
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Now, like Kathy always says, some of these techniques are not easy to learn unless you practice them.
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Mm-hmm.
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I can't make you a fabulous.
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Five star presenter overnight or in one session.
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But what I can do is give you the foundation for success toward the next step in your leadership journey.
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Presentation fitness isn't about perfection.
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It's about preparation.
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It's about showing up in front of the camera every day.
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With clarity, stamina, and confidence, your audience deserves.
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Uh, they do deserve that.
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I agree and I would love it if we make a global shift and we start considering our audience needs first.
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And oftentimes people do in person meetings, but in virtual meetings it's completely.
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Overlooked.
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I am on a mission, as most of you know, to help build workspaces and routines and experiences that really make you look and sound.
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Feel your absolute best.
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I want that for you.
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I really do.
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I have worked in this industry for over 20 years and I have a passion for this industry for a reason.
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Most of my passion comes from the fact that we change lives and we hear it all the time.
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We have well over 200 reviews on our website.
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We're starting to gain more reviews and more ratings on Apple podcasts.
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So thank you for those of you that continue to provide input.
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As a matter of fact, if you have a moment right now.
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Stop what you're doing no matter where you're listening and help us out.
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Like the show, comment on the show.
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Save the show.
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Download the show.
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All of your interactions are extremely valuable for our growth.
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I have an absolute passion for fine tuning your lighting, your camera angles, your physical setup.
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So your 2D presence is just as powerful as the expert.
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I know you are.
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Our virtual office audit@virtualofficeaudit.com,
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which will be in the show notes.
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You can register for the program.
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It's only 30 minutes and seven steps.
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You'll be amazed at the information you will learn and practice and improve your virtual communication skills.
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Let's stay energized, intentional, as well as physically and virtually fit for your next presentation.
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Kathy, this feels like a wrap to me.
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What about you? I agree.
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I think it's a wrap.
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We appreciate you sharing time with us today in this super fun episode, and we can't wait to share time with you in the next episode, which is episode 64, where we go live from the waist up.