I've got some good news for all of you. But first, let's step back for a moment. We all know that sometimes there's perception. Sometimes there's reality, they might be exactly aligned, but they may be skewed. So for example, my perception is that I will never become a star professional basketball player for the NBA, the National Basketball Association, my perception of that it's because I'm too slow, I'm too old. I don't shoot well enough.

And I'm that shy of six feet tall. I'm not tall enough. That is my perception of why I'm never going to be a star in the NBA. Well, it turns out that my perception of my flaws are exactly aligned with the reality. Those are real flaws. Those will keep me from ever becoming an NBA star.

Now, enough of you buy this course. I become a billionaire. Maybe I can buy a team. But that's different. I will never star as a basketball player because I don't have the talent, the physical talents at all to do what it takes. So many times in life, our perception of our weaknesses are actually correct.

I'm here to tell you when it comes to being a great communicator, it's not correct. I have worked with 10s of thousands of people all over the globe in person real life for more than 30 years. So I hear time and time again people telling me Oh, TJ I'm not a good communicator. I can't give good speeches or presentations. for the following reasons I say too many arms. I say too many ers.

Ers. I'm not good looking enough. my accent is to Southern or to New York or it's too Indian or it's too different from what People are used to people have this sense of all these problems that are holding them back. People have told me I know I'll never be a good communicator, because I have Bell's palsy and my face strokes. Meanwhile, no one else in the room even noticed it. So in my experience, as individuals, we come up with all sorts of reasons as to why we'll never be a great communicator.

Oh, I don't like my voice. My voice is no good. Here's what I found. Working with training and studying with the top communicators, public speakers, presenters, communicators, TV hosts in the world matters. The things that make us great communicators. It's not just we didn't say are some of the most successful highly paid TV stars in the world site.

I'm constantly it's not necessarily about your looks. Some of the most successful TV talk show host and reality star host have less hair than I do, and are 30 years older than I am. So it's not about being young and good looking. So I'm here to tell you relax the things you think are making you a bad communicator really aren't. Those are not your problem. I'm not suggesting you don't have some challenges to overcome.

But it's a different set of problems. Because trying to change your accent is really really hard and can take hundreds of hours, sometimes thousands of hours. Do you have an extra thousand hours? Changing the tone of your voice is extraordinarily difficult. I'm here to tell you. You don't have to do that.

I've seen masterful communicators who have high voices low voices scratchy voice accents that are not considered desirable or attractive. And these people are still great communicators. So, I want you before we really dive in deeply in this course, to just kind of set aside these preconceived notions you have about what's holding you back. People like, Oh, I move my hands too much. I'm here to tell you I've worked with again, more than 10,000 people around the world face to face for 30 years. I've never yet had an audience say about someone I'm training.

Oh, their hands are moving too much. Never once happened. I do hear people say, Oh gosh, that person seems frozen and stiff and scared and nervous that I hear all the time. So we're going to work on a number of issues to make you a better and better communicator. For right now. I just want you to relax.

If you've ever had one interesting conversation with one friend, one family member, one colleague about one subject, and you felt good about it, and the person you were speaking with, felt good about it. Guess what? You already have all the skills you need to be a great communicator. We'll try to build those out. Build your comfort level so you can do them in different situations. But you don't have to learn a whole new accent or lowers your voice perpetually.