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The Mission of this podcast is to help you get rid of your fear of communicating in public and become a Confident Communicator! In this podcast, and in our companion Course “The Art of Competent Communication!,” You will learn the 4 Fantastik C’s of competent communications. Upon mastering them, you will be able to speak to anyone, anywhere, anytime with confidence, clarity, comfort, and control!
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Thursday Oct 20, 2022
Thursday Oct 20, 2022
A confident speaker knows the importance of speaking slowly. He or she can accomplish things with carefully chosen words. That is the name of the game, ladies, and gentlemen! In confident communication, as I have stated many times, the most powerful form of communication is the spoken word - bar none!
Now here's our command from James 1:19. Understand this, my beloved brothers and sister, s be quick to listen and slow to speak!
Thursday Oct 13, 2022
The Art of Confident Communication: White Noise Part 2
Thursday Oct 13, 2022
Thursday Oct 13, 2022
We have all this white noise surrounding us and within us. Now, this causes much havoc in everyone's life, including mine. In fact, I experienced this. Within the last 24 hours of this recording with the love of my life - and we had misunderstandings. This was not a big win or traumatic or anything like that, but it still caused discomfort.
In this podcast, I would like to address "white noise" and how we are to respond to this communication barrier. Be a careful and thoughtful listener.
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Tuesday Oct 04, 2022
The Art of Confident Communication: The Power of What Part 5 Episode 26
Tuesday Oct 04, 2022
Tuesday Oct 04, 2022
Where are we putting our energy? You see our energy flows where our focus goes. And I want you to think about this cause this is another one of the great cornerstone setups of what is happening in the thought process. So I was just telling you that what I do is that I look at what other people look at as obstacles or challenges or problems.
I choose to switch my focus. This is an interesting opportunity to grow. How can I best grow? How can I best serve in whatever that opportunity is? So what I want you to understand is that this takes effort in our thought process.
Monday Sep 26, 2022
The Art of Confident Communication: The Power of What Part 4 Episode 25
Monday Sep 26, 2022
Monday Sep 26, 2022
So here's the next question. What's ahead around the next curve? Anticipation. I think that was Carly Simon back in the 60's. That's a great song.... Anticipation.
I guess the best way for me to answer this, what's ahead around that next curve is to pay attention to where you are. On the road of life right now, and if you look ahead in this case, an hour or two hours or three hours, and you see it's a straight line then why worry about the curve?
Just like driving an automobile, there are normal signs. Curve ahead or slow down, 90-degree curve or slow down. There's a lot of zigzagging the road, just me, Anders left and in and out and so on and so forth. So we have the signs on the actual highways that we drive our vehicles on.....
Let's not run from opportunities to grow. Let's not point our fingers immediately that it's someone else's fault, someone else has caused this. Let's look at ourselves first. Let's dig deep into the mind of our soul, and I encourage you. Choose to feed your soul with some great food every day, just like you feed your tummy.
Monday Sep 19, 2022
The Art of Confident Communication: The Power of What Part 3 Episode 24
Monday Sep 19, 2022
Monday Sep 19, 2022
Feed your soul. That's the best advice I can give you. F I tell everybody that I am of the Christian faith and I hope and pray that you have strong faith - that you have to feed our souls. And the more we provide our soul, the better that we are for ourselves, the better we are for all of mankind.
And so I think the answer to that first question what's gonna happen to me is: How much are you feeding your soul? So the more that we do that, the easier that question becomes the easier it is to answer that question is what I'm trying to communicate with you. And that's going to fall right in line with the other aspects of this question....the what.
Monday Sep 12, 2022
The Art of Confident Communication: Conviction and Celery Episode 23
Monday Sep 12, 2022
Monday Sep 12, 2022
I need to have a conviction of having more celery in my life and other like vegetables, similar vegetables. That was so interesting to me, how that came about. And of course, The idea for this podcast is Conviction and Celery. So if you are thinking about little weight management of whatever type you may want to give that some consideration also, it is interesting how all these things come together into one.
Everything in life plays off each other. The better, our physical health, the better our physical condition, the better our mental health, and the better our spiritual aspects.
The more fantastic our life is it's like being in quadrants and this is the same way here with confident communication.
Tuesday Sep 06, 2022
The Art of Confident Communication: The Power of What in Your Life Episode 22
Tuesday Sep 06, 2022
Tuesday Sep 06, 2022
Hello, my friend. And welcome back to the Monetize Your Voice Podcast with James 'Fantastik' Hepler thought we're gonna call this part two of your what? And part one, we looked at, what am I doing. What should I be doing? What can I be doing? what is the correct way to do it, to do what I am doing, and to do a real quick summary of that?
It's just a matter that you'll get, the answers to those four questions by doing one thing. And that is to do everything with positive thoughts, positive. I gave you several examples about that and we'll now delve into some more of those, what questions or what questions as in what are you doing and what's going on and why is that?
What a, what and all that kind of good stuff. And what is your light bulb? So before I get in there I wanna remind you that if you go to mrfantastik.love, you will see a nice little popup thing there that allows you to apply for a free 15 minutes. Get together with yours.
Truly we will address what you feel is your largest roadblock, a stumbling block. Speed. To become a confident communicator just do it with confidence, clarity, and comfort control. Yeah. Just having a great time, communicating your thoughts, your ideals, and so forth. So that's mrfantstik.live
And now back to the "What's". So the next question. what's wrong with the way I'm doing it or what's wrong with doing it my way? I think the simple answer to that is what are your results of doing it your way? There are many people out there. Their attitude is Hey, it's my way.
Or the highway, huh? Yeah. Oh, that's we all know him my way of the highway here in. Pennsylvania Dutch country. We call 'em bull C bull coffer. That means Bullhead. That means blockhead, stubborn determined not to learn any other way of doing it. So the answer is how are things working out, doing it your way now?
It may be working out. Fantastic. Hey, let's not try to fix something that isn't broken G on. Rolling. Just be truthful with yourself and ask yourself, am I getting the results I want? You can tell by the reaction of everyone around you. As to whether other people have committed to doing whatever the project is, the way you want to do it.
That's the thing. Always, just always be looking and asking yourself that question. Hey, and you can also really even if doing it your way is working. You may want to consider the rest of the folks that are involved in whatever the project is or the business or the family event. For some input to possibly doing it better.
Now, they're wrong with that. It also shows that you are a very mature human being. I'll give you a perfect example. We just had our 52nd family reunion very recently. And I had my dear friend and good buddy with me, Kathleen. And we do this thing called the crazy bingo. And so we're playing this thing and it's a lot of fun and so forth.
And she suggested a similar game, played a different way, which could be easier and more fun. I said, Hey, I think we're gonna consider that for number 53. So you see if we are open-minded we can always learn. We can always be better. Okay. Now the next question under the Watts is not an easy one to address.
What's the matter with me?
Is it me? , am I all right? And everybody else is all wrong or am I the one that's all wrong? And everybody else is all right. So again, what are we doing? Whatever the action is with positivity we want the very best for whoever we're serving, as well as wanting the very best for ourselves.
Okay. I think when we do that I doubt that we will ask ourselves this question very often. What's the matter with me? Now, there are times when we do that you walk away just scratching your head because you tried to communicate what, whatever the subject or situation was.
And you the other person didn't get it. Okay. And that's what TACC is all about The Art of Confident Communicatione. We ask questions when we're looking, you can see the look on the person's face and that you have not connected with that person. So then we have to ask questions, which is all part also of tall, the art of laser listening.
And of course the fantastic, confident communication formula or the FCC formula. And these are all things that you learn at mrfantatik.live or jamesfantatik.com. One leads to the other and all that other kinda gobbly go. And speaking of which if you would like, we will be more than happy. To send you five easy steps to up-leveling.
You are communication skills. That's at mrfantatik.live And also there you can apply for a free 15-minute breakdown investigation, uncovering what is your biggest roadblock to being a confident community. That's all mrfantatik.live. So let's get back to this the what deal here and that tough question.
What's the matter? What's the matter with me? We can find that out real quick just by asking numerous different questions. And when we see that we aren't getting our message through. Part of what you may want to consider. I do this on a very regular basis when I'm mentoring, particularly youngsters that help me out with my lawn and garden work.
The first time that I meet the youngster, I just lay at the whole nine yards out and I tell them there's this thing in the world that there is no such thing as a dumb question. And here@ jamesfantastic.com. We say there is one dumb question, one dumb question. The one that we don't ask.
So in doing that, I'm explaining to these teenagers, the project that we're doing. I tell them when I ask you, do you understand if you're nodding your head affirmatively, I need your brain to be going in the same direction. I don't need your head going affirmatively and your brain going left to right in a non-affirmative manner.
If it doesn't work for any of us, then we have to redo it. And what it does, it just creates a lot of frustration. So the next one is what's making the challenge so difficult. What's making the challenge so difficult? The challenge is I don't think my teenage son or teenage daughter is getting what I'm trying to get through.
In that particular case, it could be a thing called hormones, which is causing a lot of havoc. And we have to. Around that and recognize a good friend of mine that has a set of twins a girl and a boy set. And they just turned 13 and the hormones are now. Boom boom.
That's one of the things, again, we have to look at outside. Sometimes there are outside sources that make the challenge difficult and there is a great saying, and I think I can get this relatively quickly for you. I want to read this because. I do not want to misstate it. It's from the booked day by day with James Allen.
And this has been by my side for the last eight years. So I know what's going on. So to answer this question in another way we go, we'll answer it with a statement. What's making this challenge so difficult, no situation can be difficult in itself. It is the lack of insight into its intricacies and the want of wisdom in dealing with it, which give rise to the difficulty.
Immeasurable, therefore is the gain of a difficulty transcended. So this four-sentence paragraph has blessed me exponentially over the years in trying to solve these different I call 'em opportunities to grow. I don't call 'em obstacles. I call 'em opportunities to grow. As this question says, what's making the challenge so difficult?
I don't refer to 'em as challenges or obstacles I call 'em opportunities to grow so I'm gonna read that to you. One more. Because it is, I think it is a cornerstone to answering the question. No situation can be difficult in itself. It is the lack of insight into its intricacies and the want of wisdom in dealing with it, which give rise to the difficulty immeasurable.
Therefore the gain from a difficulty transcends. And that is from the book as a man thinketh written by James Allen. Oh my gosh. About 120 years ago, an amazing and amazing little book. I can't give you a high enough recommendation to pick it up and read it and reread it and so forth.
So I hope that helps. The next question is what's my first best step? What's my first best step at solving that challenging?
What's the word I want to use there? That's a good question situation. What's the best way of dealing with an unkind neighbor, a sibling spouse, et cetera, et cetera? Let's go back to that previous one. Four-sentence paragraph. I read you. And I think the insight of that is, that it lets us gain insight into what we are trying to do, and that will help us determine and develop what my first best step could be.
And I think that's part of the opportunity to grow in all aspects of life. At least that's the way I look at it. Anyhow, I think that we need to keep our eye on the ball as they say in most sports and I'm, I've been hacking around golf most of my life and the big thing there is always say, keep your head down, keep your head down and keep it still.
And every time. Let's just say the vast majority of times I keep my head down and keep it still. I hit the ball quite well and normally in the direction I want it to go. So what's my first best step? Let's do some investigating. What are the intricacies of this opportunity to grow? If that makes sense.
Okay. So there we go. There are some more Watts. Now we're gonna do another session, cuz we may even do part three and part four, cuz that I've got a lot of these things up what if this happens and what if that happens and so forth. And I think we should all challenge that and delve in and get, find out the intricacies of whatever our opportunity to grow happens to be.
We'd like to allow you to grow here in the Monetize Your Voice Podcast, go to mrfantatik.live, and. You'll see all the information, we got a whole bunch of freebies there, including your opportunity to apply for a 15-minute session with yours. Truly. Do that when at your earliest opportunity, I think it'll benefit you greatly, it's so much fun to be here with you and then Monetize Your Voice Podcast.
And I hope that you are having a wonderful day wherever you are, and if not then choose to change your attitude, change your latitude and make today the most fantastic day of your life!!!
Monday Aug 29, 2022
The Art of Confident Communication: What... Episode 21
Monday Aug 29, 2022
Monday Aug 29, 2022
Hello, my friend. And welcome back to the monetize, your voice podcast with your old buddy James 'Fantastik' Hepler. So good to have you here. Got a great subject today in our aspect of looking at and understanding. How do we best go about monetizing our voice? What is behind all of that?
And it's very complicated in some aspects, there are so many intertwining parts of learning, the art of confident communication - the art of communicating confidently to communicate with clarity comfort, and control. That's what we do. That's what we address in the La Mans. To your vivacious voice victory in our course, the art of confident communications.
And before we get into the what as in, what am I doing and what should I be doing? What can I be doing? Am I doing anything before we get into that for the day's session, I'd just to remind you that you can log on to Mr. fantastic. live. And we'll send you five free tips for up-leveling your communication skills.
And at Mr. Fantastic live, there is another drop-down or button in the digital world. That they will give you the capability of making an application for a free 15-minute session with Mr. Fantastic to address what you feel is your number one roadblock or your number one stumbling block, or your number one speed bump or pothole.
To become a confident communicator, have the confidence and the clarity to communicate with your spouse or partner, to communicate with your children, your siblings, your fellow employees, and with your supervisor on and on. Mr. Fantastic. Live, check it out today. So what am I doing?
Have you ever asked yourself that question? I've asked myself that question. Several. Hundreds or thousands of times doing my journey, this journey called life. It's not only 1:00 AM I doing, but it also, why am I doing what I'm doing?
And most people don't like that question because it takes that sincerity. To dig deep into the mind of our soul. So when you are there if you are there right now asking yourself the question yourself, the question, what am I doing? You are at the front end of the pack. As many people will run very fast and on a very regular basis away from asking them.
Solve the question, what am I doing now? This is gonna be broken down into many different subcategories. You can ask yourself that question. What am I doing in my profession at the office? Am I doing what I want to do? Or is this? A bridge, a temporary stop up. Society has changed, particularly in the last four or five years.
We had Mr. 19. Come on the scene and that just turned a lot of the world upside down. So we are looking at it through different lenses. So maybe what you're doing right now, isn't your final destination, but here's the number one point to the question of what am I doing? The subcategory? Am I doing it to the best of my capability at this moment?
Whatever your current, what is whether that happens to be a full-time homemaker, whether it happens to be a full-time grandmother or grandfather, if we could put any title, what am I doing? So the question is, am I doing my current? What. The best possible way and capabilities of what I have in my arsenal of knowledge, this is all about what is our arsenal of knowledge, and we need to continue to better that arsenal.
So what am I doing? H how well am I doing this? What if. A father, a husband, a friend, a brother, a cousin. How well am I doing that particular? What? That's the first assessment self-assessment that we should do. How well am I doing it? Then the next question. Really could be, should I be doing that
for the amount of negativity in our society is just it's overwhelming. From my perspective, it comes back again to tall, T an L the art of laser listening.
Whatever you're doing, are you doing it from a positive perspective? Are you doing it with positive energy? Because if you are, whatever you're doing is going to be very wonderful for society. And that will also ask if you're doing it with positive answer energy, your answer of what should I be doing will be answered for you right away.
Then what can I be doing again? You'll get the answer.
If we do this with positive energy, what can I be doing? I just was talking with our general manager of, I'll just call it the digital Mac area of James fantastic.com and Mr. fantastic. live and we're constantly well, how can we do this better? How can we communicate better within our own company?
And what tips do we have for everyone else? It is the greatest challenge in the universe, comforted communications, and the better we get at that skill. Wow. The more fantastic. Our entire lives become miscommunications is a mega-billion dollar challenge in all aspects of life. So let's look at it through the lens of positive energy.
What can I be doing? Let's see positively. I can. Make a friendly phone call, which I happened to do within the last hour of this recording. We have this wonderful postmaster who baked me a shoe fly pie, which is a Pennsylvania, Dutch dish. You can Google shoe fly by and the postmaster. Has almost the identical recipe as my mother's and I am just Ugh, to the moon and back.
So when I had a piece this morning, I immediately picked up the phone and I called my dear friend red, and I just told him. What her act of kindness the day before was doing for me 24 hours later. So that under the heading of what can I be doing? When those things happen, we can either phone drop everything, make a quick phone call, or even better.
I could have just sent her a quick text message or an. But in this particular case, because of other extending circumstances, I knew that a phone call was the best and I could just, I could feel her melting. The loving, hearing my gratitude, positive energy, a positive focus on any subject, and you will get the answers to what am I doing?
And you'll find out if you're doing it positively, that you're doing what you should be doing. Okay, which was the second one? What should I be doing? Third one. What can I be doing? They all get answered. If we focus on whatever the, what is with positive energy, we speaking of positive energy. If you would like to go to Mr.
fantastic. live, we have a page, I'm trying to learn all these technical terms so I can do a better job of communicating that to you. But once you go to Mr. fantastic. live it, the steps are sensationally simple. We have this kiss formula, keep it sensationally simple. And we try to do that. Go there.
We'll give you five free steps to up-leveling your communication skills. We also have an opportunity for you to apply for a free 15-minute session with Mr. Fantastic to address what you feel is your biggest roadblock or stumbling block. Pothole to overcome to become a very confident communicator. So check it out.
Mr. fantastic.com. So we are addressing the what of our life. So we addressed, what am I doing? What should I be doing? What can I be doing? And we said, Hey if we are approaching all those questions with positive answers, not positive answers with positive energy, the answer will come BA boom. And if we aren't doing.
With a great depth of desire to serve, then we'll get the answer that what we're doing is not correct. Just that simple. It's just like red with the shoe fly pie. Then the timing that was orchestrated of when I went to the post office and when. She gave me the pie. It was all orchestrated by a higher power here jamesfantstik.com and mrfantastik.live. We have a simple word for it. We like to keep things simple. And that is divinity. That's what we call it here at James. Fantastic.
Dot com. the reason I had the awe there. I was trying to multitask. And normally when I tried to multitask something goofy happens. So I don't do it too often, but this time it was important. So that's where we are my friend positive energy, doing it with a great desire. Serve. And I'm gonna give you another great example that happened to me very recently in regards to what am I doing.
What should I be doing? What can I be doing? What is the correct way to do it? When we do it from our heart in a positive output, everything falls in line through Divi. so recently I needed to call customer service. I got a letter that the mailing address might be incorrect. So I followed the instructions.
Imagine those following instructions. That kind of works out pretty well most of the time. So I got this amazing young man on the other end and he knew what he was doing and was. Excellent. The excellent customer service rep and this went Bing. And it was all completed. So then we got into a very nice conversation because I complimented him on the depth of his desire to serve.
And I asked him, I said, does your company have one of these follow-up telephone surveys that I can rate you? He said, yeah. I said, hit whatever button you have to hit. And I'll do that. Cuz I want your superiors to know how excellent of a job you are. That's another way that we can continually give back in a positive manner and it will bless you.
Trust me, you will be blessed many times when we choose us all. We all are blessed to a degree when we look at doing everything in life with positive energy. So please consider doing that when you're trying to figure out what am I doing. What should I be doing? What can I be doing? What is the correct way to do it?
All those answers are gonna come to you. I'll help you out. with overcoming what you think is your biggest roadblock to being a confident communicator, simply go to mrfantastik.live. And there will be all sorts of instructions. Simple instructions for you to complete that form and also pick up the five free steps for up-leveling your communication skills.
That's it for the day, the ladies and gentlemen on the monetize, your voice podcast, I hope you know what you are doing, and I hope you are enjoying what you are doing. And I hope that Those four questions, statements, and questions are clearer for you. Now we'll be back with more goodies right here in the monetize, your voice podcast.
Until next time please choose to make today the most fantastic day of your life.
Tuesday Aug 23, 2022
The Art of Confident Communication: Freedom of Speech Episode 20
Tuesday Aug 23, 2022
Tuesday Aug 23, 2022
Hello, my friend, and welcome to the monetize your voice podcast. It is so good to have you right by my side, James 'Fantastic' Hepler here. Today we're gonna talk about freedom of speech. I'm in the United States I've been having was. I'm an American citizen. I was born right here.
I can sit here in my backyard and look about 200 yards from here into the bedroom window that I was born in. As of this recording, almost three-quarters of a century, I go. And so one of the founding. Principles here in the United States is a thing called freedom of speech. And from my perspective, I think some quarters of our society are trying to either limit that or squelch you.
And I'm speaking out and I'm doing it in I'm attempting to do it in a kind caring manner. So I'm going to talk about this in a specific incident that happened to me recently on what is a very hot topic here in America. And I think it might be a fairly hot topic in most free societies around the globe.
But before I get to that, the freedom of speech and this particular incident, I wanna fill in that. If you go to James fantastic.com, there'll be a little popup window that comes up and you can apply for a 15-minute. Get together. With this young dude, and we will address what you feel is your number one roadblock, to being a confident communicator, to just enjoying communicating, listening, and all those other kinds of things is a, it's a very complex
Art. That's why we call it the art of communicating confidently. And so if you like to do that, does whip over there to James fantastic.com and all this other stuff will happen. And it's pretty easy. It's pretty easy. So freedom of speech here in America, we have had a debate that's been going on.
For better than two years in regards to COVID and regards to mask wearing and how good masks are, unless they are a certain type of quality mask. And I think the labeling is a K-nine mask. Okay. The letter K H for the number. Somewhere in that neighborhood, I've got some friends that are in the medical business, and basically, it has been pretty well documented that most other types of cloth masks and handkerchiefs and all that other kind of stuff are pretty, pretty much useless.
Okay. So anyhow. I happen to also have a hearing deficiency. And so I was at a doctor's office very recently. And of course, here in, America, they are still required to wear a mask. And yes, that. Was a tone of my disagreement in doctor's offices. We can go everywhere else. And I don't have a problem with anyone who wants to choose to wear a mask.
That's what freedom is about, but don't tell me, or dictate to me that I gotta wear a mask particularly. Those that there's pretty much scientific aspect behind it, that they are worthless play is simply worthless. So anyhow, I'm in doing the registration part of things. And of course, the lady on the other side has a mask on.
And I said I'm having a problem understanding you. And I just commented that I don't think that these masks serve too much purpose. I may even have said, I think they're useless. The lady next door to her who had nothing to do with the conversation, it jumps up and starts kinda overhauling me.
Look da. And we lost two people in our staff to COVID and this, that, and the other thing. And I'm relatively certain that first of all, this person was not of American heritage. I think she came to this country. Quite recently, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Not a problem because that's what America is about.
There's the melting pot. However I said to her, look, ma'am, I'm just expressing my thought. I believe in freedom of speech. I do not agree with asking you to agree with what my thought is. And I just, I wanna have an open conversation, but I am not gonna shut. If I feel that masks are useless, particularly I had a cloth mask on and I could tell the lady that you know, was taking care of me just by looking at her eyes that she was thinking, yeah dude you may have this, you may be on the right track.
So anyhow, I said to the lady, look, I am sorry. If I offended you and so forth, there was a man at that, but I do have a right to my opinion. And she says, oh, you didn't offend me, blah, blah, blah. And went back to her previous mantra of this, that, and the other thing. And I said back in 1918, they had, I think they called it the Spanish flu and there.
Hundreds of thousands, if not millions and millions of people died from this particular virus, we have had viruses since the beginning of time. We're gonna have 'em until the end of time. Now I am not giving any kind of aspect. COVID 19 was not a serious virus and yes, it killed a lot of people and so forth.
And unfortunately, we're gonna have more viruses that come along. However, here in America, we still have freedom of speech. I'm sitting out here in my backyard. I have my American flag and it is blowing in the breeze and I happen to be a. An air force veteran and so on. So wherever you are, whether wherever you are here in America or Canada or anywhere else in the world if you happen to have freedom of speech, I would like to encourage you to speak up whatever your points of view are.
I'm not I have nothing wrong. I have nothing. The person who happened to be a female disagreed with my point of view. That's what freedom of speech is all about. So before we get any further on this aspect, I want to go circle back and tell you that you could go to James fantastic.com.
And if you'd like to register for. A 15-minute session with me that we will address what you feel is your number one block to being a confident communicator - jamesfantstik.com. And if you go to our sister website, mrfantastik.live We also have another real nice freebie five steps to up-leveling your communication skills.
That's what we're. At our sister website, mrfantastik.live. So let's come back here. One more time to freedom of speech
here in America. Our founding fathers left their respective homelands on that principle one that was one of many principles. Freedom of speech. The freedom and right. The bear arms, freedom of religion, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. So I wanna encourage all Americans to speak up in a kind caring manner to have a debate about not being offended.
To have a debate of not trying to offend the other person. We all know people who have relatively our perspective, our point of view. Some people may be slightly different. Some people may be greatly different.
I guess the thing that. The saddest part about here in America is the polarization that has happened in this nation. And that polarization has happened. I think because of a lot of social media. And a lot of folks can hide behind falsehoods. They don't have their name, their picture, and their face on their particular social media page, et cetera, et cetera here at James.
fantastic.com. Boom I'm. I'm giving you my point of view in regards to freedom of speech, communicating, et cetera, et cetera. Again, I am not here to offend anybody. I just want to encourage civil conversation and civil debate. I hope that you will give that seriously consider. And I hope that you'll go to James fantastic.com and register for a session with me and we'll have a great time and I'll see whether I can apply some of my decades of cation skills to help you become a confident communicator.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for being with me today on the monetize, your voice podcast. Make today the most fantastic day of your life.
Tuesday Aug 16, 2022
The Art of Confident Communication: When are We Washed Up? Episode 19
Tuesday Aug 16, 2022
Tuesday Aug 16, 2022
Hello, my friend. And thank you so much for joining us here on the Monetize Your Voice Podcast, James 'Fantastik' Hepler, right by your side. I just had a very interesting opportunity to delve deep within my soul as someone. Said to me, just in passing and lightheartedly. So how is a washed-up broadcaster like yourself doing so that gave impetus for me to address wash dump?
So before we get into what could be. If we chose, to look at it as a negative or a down aspect in the scenario washed up I just wanna tell you that we're doing a lot of new things at jamesfantastik.com. We encourage you to log on. If you are attempting to improve your communication skills, we are offering.
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Alrighty, sounds good to me. Washed up, it was one of those things that just grabbed me. It was right before we were getting ready to play golf. I play in this great seniors league and it just stuck with me. So afterward I got to come out to my phone, come out to my car and got the phone.
And I have this section here for podcast ideas. So the headline says washed-up broadcaster. What is the story behind being washed up? Think about that for a moment. Why would we want to be that negative either to ourselves or to anybody else? When are we truly washed up? Are we ever washed up? What is the connotation not washed up?
And why do we, even as a society, use it
to be unkind. Now I wanna make this not taken. I am not saying whoever the person was that said it to me, a fellow go good. Golfer was. I think their whole tone was to be comedic as a blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Because I think in our area I'm considered to be a relatively successful broadcaster.
I've been in the business for. A lifetime. So I had to check this out with the dictionary. So I went in there and I said, so what is the definition that washed up that this is what came up deposited by the tide on the shore, as in a washed-up jellyfish. Hey. I said that's not too bad and I never even thought of that aspect as part of the definition washed up.
We, I love the shore. I love to be on the beach and we see all these different things that are. Washed up on the shore, on the beach. However, that was not the. That was not what was delivered. The question was how is a washed-up broadcaster like you doing today, these days? Yeah. So then the port too, on the definition, a washed up.
Came up on the screen and it said no longer effective or successful as a washed-up actress or act tour. Aha. So let's go back. Let's just look at this for a moment because you see everything in life revolves around. What type of mental spin do we put on any subject? And I am observing because in the previous podcast here, I talked about tall, the art of laser listening, and I've always considered myself to be a half-decent listener and I am focusing.
on increasing my capabilities with tall, the art of laser listening. So after that comment was given to me at the beginning before we even went out on the golf course, this is what they call a shotgun start. There were like 60 or 70 of us in a league. And I started to listen intently.
To all the comments and all the negativity that was going on, that people were saying about themselves, other people in my force about their golf capabilities, and on. And I just want you folks to know from my perspective, that there isn't anything positive that can come to anyone when we produce.
Negative energy. And in fact, I started talking to myself in positive terms. I'm hearing all this negative garbage. So before we go on anymore on this, I just wanna come back to tell you about the freebie we're giving away@jamesfantastic.com and also wanna thank you again for joining me here on the monetize your voice podcast cast.
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That'll take you right there. That's why other team members are good at that. So give that a shot. So let's get back here. To negativity and washed up. So the question is when are we truly washed up? I can tell you, there are a lot of my peers
I'm in, in my seventies. and there aren't very many, my peers that are active in this kind of a setup, whatever their specialty in life is, and that's falling, cuz that's none of my business. But my question is when are we truly washed up? I will tell you what I feel. We are truly washed up.
We are no longer breathing. I feel that we can be a service to society until we take our very last breath with some other connotations and yadda data, but all things being equal. The last thing. If there isn't anything else that we can do physically, we can always, and I do mean always be praying.
We can always be praying is one of the greatest, most powerful resources that all a man counted has. So that's what. Think what are we truly washed up? Are we ever washed up? My answer is no, we're never washed up as long as we can love as long as we can encourage we aren't washed up. So I'll ask you the question to ask yourself why.
Do we use that negative term or any other negative term in our society? Is it necessary? Does it make the person feel better or more important? To ask the question, how is a washed-up broadcaster doing, or what does a washed-up broadcaster do? So now again, I want to tell you, that I am very thankful. I'm very thankful that the person asked me that question.
They did it in a lighthearted setup. It was one of those backhanded jokes, blah, blah, blah. But I'm thankful. The question was asked, cuz it gave me another opportunity to grow. It gave me another opportunity to dig deep down into the depth of my soul. Because from my point of view, my dear friend, that's where all the diamonds and gold are found by digging deep into the depth of ours.
I hope you will do that. I hope that you will try your very best to say goodbye to the negativity of any kind and me on an upcoming podcast. It may be the next one. I am going to be talking about. Freedom of speech right here on the monetize, your voice podcast. So one more little thing here for you before we go.
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I hope I know that I am not a washed-up anything because I'm not a jellyfish and I haven't been washed up on the seashore. So you aren't washed up either wherever you are. I told you I had a very down morning today. And I was very unhappy with myself. I was. It doesn't happen very often.
However, like all of you fine folks I happen to be human also. And that just is the way it is. It's life. As Franks said as life I've been. Offer a pirate, a king, and a queen, whatever. However, it goes bumping down and in and out. Keep going, keep taking the next step. Keep taking the next step.
I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for being here on the monetize, your voice podcast will be back again. If the good Lord's willing and the Creek don't rise, please consider. Making today the most fantastic day of your life.