What do people know about you? What don't they know? What are you afraid they'll know?   From personal friends to public followers, people know I'm a Public Speaking Professor and World Traveler. In fact, they know I'm a NATIONAL AWARD WINNING Public Speaking Professor and a 7 CONTINENT 121 Country World Traveler.    Why?    Because most people, including myself, BOLDLY HIGHLIGHT what we think society will proudly accept, applaud, adore, and admire ... and avoid announcing anything that may make others feel ashamed of us. So what if I shared a supposed stigma instead of a strength with all of you?  I have bipolar II and major depressive disorder... no wait, I need to bold that.    I HAVE BIPOLAR II and MAJOR DEPRESSIVE DISORDER.    It's strange seeing what most would deem a weakness in bold, right?    For 2023, I will teach and travel much less. I will reflect much more. It's not time to seek new life experiences...  it's time to share the ones I've already been blessed to have.  I've had bipolar II and depression since  I was 19.  Without it, I'm not a public speaking professor or world traveler. Simply, without it, there's no me.    *The title is "I Have Mental Illness", not "I Suffer From" or "I Struggle With".   If you like to find out more, here are the links to hear in audio or watch on video.   Thank you for reading this, I feel free.  I am finally free.  I like to end this piece from the way I started it.   What do people know about you? What don't they know? What are you afraid they'll know?   John D. Lin  January 21, 2023 6:57AM  Happy Lunar New Year Everyone

Want to improve your public speaking? Want to speak with greater confidence about any topic? Listen no further! Not only do we rant about NBA Superstar Kevin Durant ruining basketball, we also provide you with public speaking tips on how to do it! Have a listen and share your thoughts!  JDL @johndlinspeaks on IG

Do you hate not knowing what someone will ask you? Of course you do. You like to prepare what to say in advance because you hate being asked something in public and saying, "OMG IDK what to say..." You will always be asked 2 questions, forever, no matter who you are and where you are.  1. Do you like what  you do? 2. How do you know you will like this answer later on? Share your thoughts. Make a 60 second video and write a paragraph. 

This podcast is made and should be listened to after speech battle 1 introducing your partner.  IMPORTANCE OF VIDEO COMMUNICATION! 1. What's the difference between presenting yourself on video Vs. in person? It's not going away. Before pandemic less than 1 in 10 people worked from home permanently, at 7%. Just one year into the pandemic that rose to MORE than 1 and 4 people, at 26%! We are now past year two now, that 26 will most likely continue to go up. Walk around your neighborhoods -are your strip malls closing with storefront vacancies? Are there less mom and pop brick and mortar shops? Are there an increasing number of machines and decreasing number of clerks and cashiers at the stores?  2. Video presentation -eye level, background, attire, light -get the basics right. 3. Would you hire someone with a resume: handwritten in pen, on loose-leaf, crumpled, with white-out, cross outs, typos, ink-marks, wEiRd caPs? This ties in with #2, why would someone hire a candidate metaphorically with the same level of presentation on camera? APPEARANCE MATTERS first above content. Share your thoughts via a 60 second video and brief paragraph.

Thanks everyone, especially Pharmacy for listening.

*This podcast is available for the world to hear -without vulnerability there can no human connection. Without potential for criticism, there can be no love. *All podcasts are unadulterated, unedited, unfiltered - one take no matter what. By now you see the limitations, frustrations, lamentations of writing up and memorizing your speeches. It doesn't make you much of a better speaker in real life. But what does it mean to be "good" at speaking? What does it mean to be "good" at guitar? This podcast challenges you to re-evaluate how you evaluate yourself in regards to your grades, your speech, and your thoughts on love. WOW -------------- *RRRRRRRRRR *Guitar -Really good? *Someone you love *Grades, Number Scales Signify Nothing-Something, not everything *What's the point of love if.... Share your thoughts! Thanks, JDL~!

*This podcast is available for the world to hear -without vulnerability there can no human connection. Without potential for criticism, there can be no love.  *All podcasts are unadulterated, unedited, unfiltered - one take no matter what. Here are my extemporaneous key word bullet points symbols only outline Intro - (1 minute) *, 12:33AM, Preparation -Paper Vs. Presentation Specific Purpose - Guitar Metaphor for Speaking --------------- BODY MP1 - *PPPPPPPP (People Perform Pressure Paid Profoundly, Private, Practice, Personal, Professional) MP2 - Buffet/Cooking MP3 - EEE - Enjoy, Enthusiasm, (Effort -Forgot it, oh well), Excellence MP4 - Prove! If Best, are you okay? -------------- Conclusion (1 minute) - Ask yourself. Any Filler words? Share your thoughts! Thanks, JDL~!

All podcast are in extemporaneous/impromptu format - On the first episode of class, I don't say a single verbal word. All I do is type, type, type, no matter what. Here's why! Here are my extemporaneous bullet points to make this 10 minute podcast. *John B. Greg -Where is the audience now? Do they even care? *P.S. isn't adversarial  *Texting 94 day, ~35,000 year >>> 9 trillion year, 45% US *Phone Calls -How really are you *Type at 40WPM, Talk at 12-WPM, 3x faster! *Comfort vs. Confidence (Copy cat vs. Only You) *Would you hire a babysitter if you never saw or heard them? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Did you catch any fillers, if so let me know for bonus! *Share your thoughts relating to your experience personally and professionally.

This episode has been published and can be heard everywhere your podcast is available. All podcast are in extemporaneous/impromptu format  On the first episode of class, many students already think I am "weird". Conventional expectations both in classroom and in social contexts are broken for the first time and perhaps only time in their lifetime. Why would I do this? Here are my extemporaneous bullet points to make this 10 minute podcast. *Number of teachers in a student's lifetime *New, Different, Unique, Weird... Oh no! * CONFIDENCE - muscles, makeup, money, marketing marks-grades (triple alliteration x5 M) *Judgment from others *Do you want to be remembered? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Did you catch any fillers, if so let me know for bonus! *Share your thoughts relating to your experience personally and professionally.

Hello Pharmacists of the Future World, Below are my "Extemporaneous" notes I referred to when preparing this 18 minute spoken podcast. Notice it's just "KWBPSO", key words bullet points symbols only. Why not manuscript/memorized manuscript? Well...you decide.  An average speaking pace is 150 words per minute, multiplied by 18, I may have spoken (using calculator), 2,700 words! Can you imagine I typed that (Manuscript)!  The average person can type 40 words per minute, that would take me (calculator app again :)) 2,700/40, 67.5 minutes to type! This does not include the time I have to think about what to write by the way, let's say it took me 30 minutes to brain storm that up.  Then time to learn every word in order, who knows how long, let's be kind, super duper kind, and say 2 hours, that's 120 minutes? (Memorized Manuscript) The average non-double spaced novel contains 500 words...that is over 5 pages I need to memorize! Total time invested for your 18 minute talk - 30 brainstorm + 67.5 type + 120 memorize = 210.5 minutes (3 hours, 30 minutes, 30 seconds) --------------------------- *It's not at all inconceivable that as a pharmacy manager you will need to brief your staff for 18 minutes straight. You may need to do this every day, do you have 3:30:30 to spare? Some may say, I can skip the memorizing part, but if you read word for word from a paper, will people sit there and listen attentively until you finish -why not just hand it out to them? What happens if you lose the paper, or forgot your glasses (contact lens dried up, the worse! or even worse in a hurry you put it on backwards!) Or worse, what if what you wrote and memorized changed? There are new protocols during CoVid-19 that can come in every morning. What you wrote and want to read from yesterday is no longer applicable, you need to adjust to the moment.  *Most importantly, even if you spent these 3:30:30 hours, all you did was prepare what you are going to say/planning to say.  How much time was devoted to actually practicing speaking? That's correct, 0 hours, 0 minutes, and 0 seconds! Add in that time, and an 18 minute daily briefing becomes your unpaid fulltime job. Yay! :)  *Likewise, try and avoid the impromptu speech for this too -what you have to say is probably important, otherwise why have a meeting or debriefing when people are working.  Without further ado, my extemporaneous notes. -------------------------------------------- 18 minutes from this A. Welcome > Asynchronous? Never! > UN: adultered, filtered, rehearsed B. Me/Course (interpersonal) C. 1st Assignment - Music > Future assignments (DONE at 18)