CLOSE THE DOOR: Stop Working on Your Pitch. Start Working on Your Presence.
Own The Room: How to Control Perception, Read the Room, and ... by Jake Stahl | Executive Presence & High-Stakes Communication
Episode notes
You didn't lose them at the end. You lost them in the middle, in a moment so small you talked right through it.
In this one, Jake takes you inside the exact second a conversation slips — the lean back, the dropped eyes, the "yes, yes" that turns into a slow "yeah, okay" — and breaks down the three reasons you miss it every single time: you're running your script, you're protecting your good feeling, and you're afraid of the silence. He walks through five specific things to watch for in yourself, not in the room, the next time it matters — from catching yourself performing to getting quiet enough to actually hear what their face is telling you.
The signal was never hidden. You just weren't there to catch it.
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