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Aug 2026
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Whether you are a professional corporate employee or a startup entrepreneur, good communication and presentation skills are widely accepted as critical success factors towards reaching your business goals. In this podcast, Matt Krause and Alper Rozanes, who are communications trainers, authors and startup investors share their views on assorted presentation-related techniques. As they say at the beginning of the movie The Matrix, "Follow the white rabbit."
Matt goes deeper into the hard skills vs soft skills debate, and outlines why he, especially given his professional background before he was a presentation trainer, is a hater of the hard skills vs soft skills way of seeing the world.
Guest Necil Beykont, a negotiation trainer in Istanbul, goes into the differences between hard skills and soft skills, and recommends terms we should use instead, and better ways of thinking than we currently use.
Based on his book "The Damn Rules," Nick Richtsmeier describes his Rule #4 (The Customer Is Wrong) and Rule #5 (The Competition Is Your Friend), and Alper, Matt, and Nick begin to speculate on what these things might mean for your presentations.
In this episode, returning guest Nick Richtsmeier talks about his book "The Damn Rules," and that the audience distraction you, as a presenter, face is often not a lack in you, it’s just the world your audience exists in, and here’s what you can do to turn the tables.
US-based strategy consultant Joe Fromandi talks about strategy consulting and helps Matt on a Curse of Knowledge-related problem Matt has been having with one of his services.
Guest Brad Farris returns to the podcast to talk about the benefits of using humor in presentations specifically, and leadership in general. Brad and Matt also discuss some tangible examples of how you can turn this from an "it is good" theory into something that you use and do in real life situations.
Matt and Alper discuss the very human impulse to control the world around us, and the fact that we don't and what that means for our presentations.
David Beckett, a pitch coach from The Netherlands, talks about the business of pitch coaching (one of the niches of presentation coaching), including how he got started, what he has learned from the audience members, etc.
Dr Nil Madi goes into the pre-existing emotional state of your audience members before you even begin your presentation, and the folly of thinking you can control the fluctuations in that emotional state during your presentation.
Taner Albayrak, a co-founder of a university in Istanbul, goes into the value of having good communication skills on board a ship particularly, and in your career in general.
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