Focus on energy, words will follow

When you tap into a certain energy, that creates emotion. If you tap into that emotion, the words come as a natural consequence. Energy leads, emotions follow, and words fill in the gap.

If you don't enjoy speaking, you're doing it wrong. I see enjoyment as a barometer - if I'm doing things right, I'm probably enjoying myself.

The day I understood that speaking was a subconscious flow-oriented process and not a conscious process, completely changed the way I approached it.

The more I focused on how I show up and optics and having a good deck and all this, the less I got promoted. The more I dropped focusing all that and really focusing on the work, that's when I started moving through the product ladder.

We are often our biggest impediments to good communication because of the anxiety we bring to the party.