CHAZAQ's Torah Talks #70: Eliezer Blatt - Life is a Series of Presentations

Tuesday night program with special guests tonight we have with us Rabbi Elise of Vlad all the way from Eric's code Rabbi how you doing like I'm sure I'm good I'm doing well thank you thank you Hashem thank you very much for joining us on tour talks tonight we're going to be speaking about life is a series of presentations which isn't going to be an exciting topic uh especially for me on a personal level uh you're gonna hear why in a moment but before we jump into tonight's exciting topic Robin blot if you give our audience a little bit more of a background about yourself and the great work you're involved with oh okay well my career started I was a young singer dance actor loving being in front of crowds uh I became a professional drama we were going to be opening an opening act for a major uh major group uh and then that didn't work out and I went to college and I learned about television production and uh then I started working for television shows top television shows on uh that just like moved moved me right through and then I decided to tap into my Jewish roots uh later in life when I was 29 and I came to Israel and uh I left my career as a uh being groomed as a television director and it fell into my lap I started to uh work with a fellow who was into corporate uh public speaking and he I watched what he did and he showed me what he did and then after he left I continued doing it and uh after I was doing that for a while I started before I knew it I was flying around the world giving public speaking training to companies to authors to speakers and that's it this is the reason why I love my job was I get to speak to people like you and the people all over the world and help them to raise their presentation skills because it's one of the greatest skills you can have for your personal and your professional lives amazing and we just had the presentation at the hazard headquarters not so long over every black was here in New York and uh the feedback was amazing it was two thumbs up and uh unfortunately I wasn't able to be around at the time but the people that were there told me Raven reviews so uh that's gonna be tonight's topic which is life is a series of presentations we're going to be talking about public speaking but Rabbi what does it mean that life is a series of presentations how does that make sense that life is this how do you make it uh so most people think that in order to be a good public speaker or to be a public speaker if you ask them they need an audience yeah they need the people over there a classroom an audience but the truth is we have to Define our terms and public speaking to me is life is a series of presentations whether you're speaking to one or whether you're speaking to a thousand you are on we are constantly making presentations but we don't think about that until now now you have to know you wake up in the morning if you're married you're talking to your spouse you're talking to your kids you have a harusa you're on the phone with people you go to a store you give them money you get something back we're making hundreds if not thousands of presentations a day depending on what you do and if that's the case we might as well learn how to do it better wow so I saw a while the rabbi was talking about the presentation the hands were moving and the hand was going like this is that part of public speaking and in general with speaking using the hands well I think using our hands is not part of public speaking it's part of speaking in general as human beings we use our hands so we're just replicating that when we speak to an audience we're just it's just more than one person it's one person and one person and one person it's just a series of a lot of different people so if you're speaking of 500 people you would do the same things you would do for one person just bigger ah amazing unbelievable uh Tommy a little bit of experience on your end with regards to uh public speaking something that uh went over very well or maybe a blooper that might have happened one time or some sort of experience that you might have had in the past rabbi uh a blooper laptop it doesn't have to be an incident that you maybe you had a presentation or a one-on-one and it just went over very well or a technique that you use that you could give over to the public um well it's a whole the whole uh course and the whole I read the log house you know yeah it's a training but uh you know one of the uh the the main things that a person needs is to have passion and energy when they speak and that's the key thing if if you care about what you have to speak about then that's going to get get through to your audience so that's one of the key things that I try to get over to my clients and my students is that you need to be passionate and to feel that wow what an opportunity I have to get this over to my audience and make their life Bennett better in some way amazing amazing so Rabbi we all know the famous I guess for lack of other words joke that a person is at a levia at a funeral and uh he's asked to speak so many people it said that they'd rather be in the coffin as opposed to standing up there and speaking in front of an audience there's a fear for public speaking so in your opinion what tips can one uh get to overcome this fear of speaking in public we understand that life is a presentation and sometimes you speak to your spouse or your friends or to your co-workers but when you're speaking in a larger audience I remember when I was young uh I was just you know because I started out was only about 15. so I was forcibly I guess for lack of but like I wasn't ready for it I was put up in front of crowds big crowds and I remember my heart was beating oh my gosh like like you you see like if you watch the videos uh of when kazak just started I would be doing opening remarks before a speaker would come up I was so nervous but Mark something out today I guess practice makes perfect and I'm able to box him go up there and I'd be so fearful not be scared because we've had audiences of over a thousand over 2 000 people even at big events but uh what suggestions and tips could you give to the public with regards to public speaking and fear yeah so when when it comes to fear uh it's a natural fear that most people have when they speak in public and the answer is you don't get rid of your fear you'll learn how to channel it how to move it into the right direction so the first thing is if someone is waiting for that fear to go away it doesn't most speakers entertainers athletes have that fear have that anxiety and that's good to have that that's going to push you over the top that's what makes people great as someone who's going to have that anxiety knows how to use it and that energy that pushes them over the top and they did studies to write a whole book on Olympic athletes and entertainers and speakers who use that energy and channel it and not you're not going to get rid of it so that's okay in fact people who don't have any fear and there's no anxiety they come in and it's just same old and they're too comfortable that's actually not a good thing when we used to make television shows we had if we had an actor an actress that was so comfortable in front of the camera we would actually add tension on the set we would drop a stage light on purpose we'd bring in a crying baby that was good for the actresses and then we'd reshoot it and nine out of ten times the scene would be better why because we added a little bit of tension on the set it wasn't just smooth going so you could see being being a little anxious not a frozen anxious not the anxious or the fear that people are going to see you know when your tongue Cleaves to the top of your mouth yeah and things that you do with your hand and you're playing with yourself yeah those things if the nervous energy is shown to the audience that's not good because if you're nervous the audience will be nervous there's a relationship between you but if you're nervous inside and channeling it and they don't see it that's what we go for so when people say elieza how do I get rid of the butterflies in my stomach I tell them I'm not going to get rid of them I'm going to show you how to have them fly in formation amazing wow so you're saying it's a positive you're turning into a good thing uh interesting very interesting yeah and one one tool I'll give you a tool that we share because people say well how do I do that how do I how do I channel that one thing is most people are fearful what are they going to think of me what if I make a mistake what if I don't look good what if I'm not convincing for some reason why what are they going to think of me there's a fear of that so if you switch it around and say wow what an opportunity I have to give this over to my audience it's off you right now with all your viewers I know even though I might be anxious inside yeah about giving this over in the right way I know that if they take this information and use it that their lives are going to be better and that propels me to get over that anxiousness amazing wow very very very great tip we really much appreciate it and uh Rabbi blood we have a mini guy customer that has actor talks uh a final message for our broader ends that you could give over to us a final takeaway we appreciate all the people you've given us so far so my final takeaway I'm going to reiterate what I said in the beginning and that has to do with you have to be passionate you have to have energy and vitality in your talk and feel it the yes a question they said you know the man tasted like anything you wanted it to taste like so they asked him half a time what if he didn't have anything in mind what would it taste like and he answered he said it wouldn't taste like anything and I want to bring that here if you come to a talk or you're speaking to someone and you don't have anything behind it you don't want to get them to jump into action or Inspire them or educate them or inform them some way then nothing's going to happen but if you come in and you want that to happen and you feel it then it's going to happen if you don't care about what you have to say to your audience they won't care either what a powerful final message or blot amazingly love the passion and uh very very important to take that not only in your speaking skills but every single part of our lives uh like you just mentioned true if you don't think about anything nothing it's going to be given over to others as well we want to thank you very very much Robbie Black for your time it means so much to us how does one contact the rabbi if there's a need if anyone is interested uh with regards to uh potentially uh joining the rabbi for these public speaking courses great so I do one-on-ones and I I fly around the world doing this I do Zoom sessions and I could be reached at my email E blat b-l-a-t-t-6 gmail.com yeah that's the best way to get in touch with me and uh eblad6 gmail.com yeah okay just for the record and uh we want to thank you once again we want to give a shout out Terry dear friend yaakov Cyril who's the one that initiated and suggested Kazakh to have every Blood on the Torah talks thank you very much yaakov and we want to thank all of our partners and all the different podcasts and platforms that are hosting our Torah talk podcasts uh we want to thank Torah anytime for hosting this as well dailygiving.org a dollar a day goes a very very far away we encourage all of our listeners to make sure to be part of it part of the Revolution it's an amazing thing it's really really growing on a daily basis and everybody should be part of this amazing Mitzvah and we want to thank everyone all the great employees and workers behind the scenes that make the other organization what it is spreading the light far and wide thank you Hashem and every single Tuesday night kazak Torah talks 8 30 p.m Eastern Standard Time khazak.org live 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