language

In a truth-facing moment, my speech coach told me this: “If you are saying ‘um’ and ‘uh’ often in your presentation, you might as well be saying ‘dumb’ and ‘duh’ because that’s what the audience hears.” Filler words. Disfluencies. Distractors. Whatever you call them, I was a repeat offender. The coach asked me to tell a story off the cuff … [Read more...] about Dumb and Duh