Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan - How You Find Your Superpower, Hone Your Craft, and Do The WORK with Tiffani Bova! Episode 109

Episode Date: May 4, 2021

What is the key to growth? How do you double down on what you’re really good at and how do you fill the gaps for the rest? Today, I have a guest on with me who has real actionable advice on how to roll up your sleeves and do THE WORK. Tiffany Bova is THE master of sales, total innovator, and mind blowing speaker. She is here to give YOU the secrets to finding your own superpower while illuminating the realities of going back to work post-COVID and the best practices for speakers. Do not miss this dynamic conversation with a woman who really knows her stuff!    About the Guest: Tiffani Bova is the chief growth evangelist at Salesforce and the author of the Wall Street Journal bestselling book GROWTH IQ: Get Smarter About the Choices that Will Make or Break Your Business. Bova has been named to the latest Thinkers50’s list of the world’s top management thinkers and is a welcomed guest on Bloomberg, BNN, Cheddar, MSNBC, and Yahoo Finance, among others. She also contributes her thinking to publications including Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Entrepreneur, Diginomica, Quora, Thrive, Rotman School of Management and Duke Dialogue Review. She is a change maker who’s thought-provoking and forward-thinking insights have made her a frequent guest on a variety of industry-leading podcasts and live broadcasts.   Finding Tiffani Bova:  Website: https://www.tiffanibova.com/  Listen to What's Next! with Tiffani Bova Read Growth IQ: Get Smarter About the Choices that Will Make or Break Your Business Instagram: @tiffanibova Twitter: @Tiffani_Bova LinkedIn: Tiffani Bova     To inquire about my coaching program opportunity visit https://mentorship.heathermonahan.com/    Review this podcast on Apple Podcast using this LINK and when you DM me the screen shot, I buy you my $299 video course as a thank you!    My book Confidence Creator is available now! get it right HERE   If you are looking for more tips you can download my free E-book at my website and thank you! https://heathermonahan.com    *If you'd like to ask a question and be featured during the wrap up segment of Creating Confidence, contact Heather Monahan directly through her website and don’t forget to subscribe to the mailing list so you don’t skip a beat to all things Confidence Creating!     See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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visit GlobalXETFs.com. You have to become a student of your profession, whatever that is. Sitting in comfort means you're not sort the challenging yourself to do other things. Through that process, you're going to find your non-strengths. Now, do you want to double down and try to make yourself really good at those non-strengths? Or do you want to say, those are my non-strengths? I'm going to surround my people who that is their strength. And I'm going to go focus on what is my strength.

That's a perfect setup, especially as an entrepreneur. Like, fall in love with failure, get comfortable with being uncomfortable, find out what your non-strengths are, surround yourself with people who could help fill in those gaps, and then find a way to double down on what you're really good at. I'm on this journey with me. Each week when you join me, we are going to chase down our goals, overcome adversity and set you up for better tomorrow. I'm ready for my close time. Hi and welcome back. I'm so excited for you to meet my friend Tiffany Bova coming live to us from LA. She's the chief growth evangelist at Salesforce and author of the Wall Street Journal best

selling book, Growth IQ, get smarter about the choices that will make or break your business. The book covers 10 pasts of rothe that will help you on your journey to success. And we are diving into them today. Tiffany's also delivered over 500 keynote presentations on sales transformation and business model innovation to over 400,000 people on six continents.

I mean, what you have accomplished, Tiffany, in your career is mind blowing. to over 400,000 people on six continents. I mean, what you have accomplished Tiffany in your career is mind blowing and I'm so excited to get into it. Thank you for being here today. Oh, thank you for having me Heather. It is my pleasure. Oh my gosh. All right. So so much to get into and I really wanted to start with.

How do you even get a title of sales force of the Angeles? Like, did you make this position up? How do you make that happen? What's so funny is it doesn't matter. I've been here now five years and lots of things to talk about and everyone asks me about my title. It's great.

So it's sort of a funny story behind it. But throughout my career, I knew what I really loved doing. And so I wanted to manifest and create a sort of like the perfect role for me. And Salesforce was kind enough to allow me to do that. And it was really about how do I sort of share the stories and evangelize kind of the art of the possible. And so why not put evangelists in the title, you know, kind of paying homage to one of the first in tech guy Kawasaki, who was the chief evangelist at Apple back in

the Steve Jobs days. And so it really, I think also helps share that I don't have, you know, I'm not in sales. I don't have a quota, like I don't have responsibility from a corporate standpoint. So my conversations are going to be much different. And so I was very intentional in what I wanted that title to say. But yes, it was kind of manifested and created and Salesforce gave me the opportunity and I jumped. So you believe in manifestation? I absolutely do. I absolutely do.

I think, let's see, it might have been nine or 10 years ago. I created a vision board of sort of what I wanted to accomplish and what I was passionate about and whether it be writing my book, which was on the vision board, or making the writing my book, which was on the Vision Board, or making the thinkers 50 list, which was on my Vision Board, or landing a role where I could really kind of create this opportunity for me to do what I love doing. And a couple of other things, and lucky me, and maybe I shot too low, but all but a few came true. And so I think it's just about

setting the intention of what you want to accomplish, even if few came true. And so I think it's it's just about setting the intention of what you want to accomplish, even if it's scary, then you just know what you need to do and who you need to surround yourself to, you know, help lift you up to get to where you're trying to go. But I also don't want to minimize the work that you put in to become the person that was able to get this opportunity, right? Like your background and track record in sales is beyond impressive. Well, I think there's a few things. You know, I think I was accidentally stumbled into selling

and realized I was good at it. And then I could make some money at it. Well, this is awesome. Like, great, I can make money doing what I enjoy doing. I'm a people person. You know, I was an athlete my whole life. And so I love the competitiveness of selling. Like, you know, I was an athlete my whole life and so I love the competitiveness of selling like you know, winning that deal feels just as exciting today as it did 30 years ago. And then I realized, you know, that when

I left the sort of sales leadership profession, I was burnt. I was burnt out. I needed a break. I had just been grinding for 15 years and I had to get off that merry-go-round and I decided that I wanted to go and become an analyst and consultant on sales transformation, so to use what I had learned. And I didn't know how to do that, actually. Like it's a very different muscle. So the first couple of years that felt like I wasn't very good at it.

But what happened was people started to share with me what they thought my superpower was. And it could be storytelling. It could be taking lots of data from multiple sources and being able to package that into a presentation or looking for signals and trends in the market. I didn't realize they were my superpowers until people started to tell me, you're really good at this. And once I realized that, then I said, okay, how do I do more of that? And so I think it was a process of elimination. Like, what do I want to do?

But what am I really good at? And what do my clients actually value for me? And then how do I create a situation where I do more of that, where I do more of what people think I'm good at, and that I enjoy, and I love doing. And that's kind of how that happened. That was kind of the work. It's not just what you wanna do,

but also what people value in what you bring to the table, why they hired you, why they invited you to a meeting. Like ask the question, hey, you invited me to this meeting, why do you invite me to this meeting? And they may say, you know, you always bring a unique perspective. Oh, okay, thank you. Right, then you go, okay, people think I bring a unique

perspective and then ask someone, why do you invite me to this? Or, you go, okay, people think I bring a unique perspective and then ask someone, why'd you invite me to this? Or, you know, give me some feedback in this meeting and they might say, you're really good at this, and this, okay,

I'm really good at this, and this, or you could improve here. What you have to ask so that you can kind of find where you want to double down. And that's why that vision board was really a creation of all the things people thought

I did fairly well. So I like that you called it the work, right? Because as I'm three years into being an entrepreneur and I identify with what you just said, still in the work of everything is evolving and changing and it's scary and hard and so different than being back in corporate America, where it felt so much more linear.

You knew with that next move, the path was already mapped out for you versus I feel like now I'm living in the work. How did you keep yourself further on and say, you know what, this is the work and I get it and I'm sticking with it versus getting frustrated and saying, gosh, I keep, I'm met with failure. I'm met with challenges, maybe I'm not supposed to be doing this.

Well, there's so much in that. I'd say, you know, more than anything, for those of you listening that have children or, you know, get them into sports, doesn't matter if they're not very good at it. Like, there's so many lessons I learned in sports, right? Winning with humility, losing with your head held high, being coachable, being a teammate, sharing, getting feedback, giving feedback, like there's so many lessons in sports. So I think when you talk about the work, it's like you have to become a student of your profession,

whatever that is. It's like if you wanna get in shape, you have to go to the gym. You're gonna be sore for the first 30 days, but don't stop going because if you stop going because you're sore and you go back again, you're just gonna get sore again. But if you just keep working on it, eventually you won't be sore anymore.

So now you either need to increase the weights or mix up the workout so you get sore again, right? It's about getting a little uncomfortable every single day because sitting in comfort means you're not sort of challenging yourself to do other things. But I will also say through that process, you're going to find your non-strengths, which is another word for weakness. You're going to find your non-strengths.

Now do you want to double down and try to make yourself really good at those non-strengths or do you want to say, those are my non-strengths. I'm going to surround my people who that is their strength. And I'm going to go focus on what is my strength, right? I mean, that's a perfect setup, especially as an entrepreneur. Like, I hear all the time. I'm trying to grow my business. And then, you know, I'm just about to, you know, double my revenue. Are you the right leader to get you to the next place? Is your strength being able to do that? Or is it time for you to

bring in another CEO or to bring in, you know, I partner or to bring in a chief financial officer or whatever it might be right to fill in those non-strengths. And so I think that throughout the journey, that's what you have to learn is fall in love with failure, get comfortable with being uncomfortable, find out what your non-strengths are surround yourself with people who could help fill in those gaps and then find a way to double down on what you're really good at.

Such good advice could not agree more. However, it does sound a little bit easier than it actually is putting it into practice just like going to the gym as you mentioned. So obviously growth is one of your superpowers, one of the things that you're able to identify. Right now looking at so many business owners and employees of companies with this new, crazy world that we're in. As you step back and take a look at industries and business today, what are some of the suggestions you have in ways that people can start to move forward to regain their footing and start moving to a growth plan?

For me, I feel like having been a sort of advisor and consultant for a decade on growth and sales at a company called Gartner, which is the world's largest analyst and consulting firm for tech companies is the lack of investment that was made around technology, pre-pandemic, really caught a lot of businesses flat-footed. Because if you have to close your doors overnight,

and you don't have any commerce presence, you're in trouble. If you close your doors overnight, overnight and you don't have any commerce presence, you're in trouble. If you close your doors overnight and your employees don't have the ability to use cloud-based products to work from anywhere, you're in trouble. If you don't have the ability to communicate with your customers, I mean, you even have to know who they are, you're in trouble.

So I think what has happened was it kind of showcased and highlighted the lack of investments that had been made. But what has been really inspiring is over the last 12, 13, 14 months is how quickly small businesses entrepreneurs have pivoted to making those technology investments and doing the things they need to do to make sure their employees are safe and capable of doing their job. But getting back to growth requires a very different mindset today because the buying and selling engine is now all digital. And it doesn't matter if you're selling a hard good or you're selling a service.

Ultimately, you have to figure out what do our customers want tomorrow from us or six months from us. And it's not going to look the way it looked 12 months ago. So if you just sort of step in and go, we're just going to keep doing what we were always doing. Now the world's opening back up, you're going to be very disappointed because the customers are different, you know, the habits are different and more specifically, customers' expectations have changed. We now are these super consumers, you know, that live in our and shop and educate and do healthcare in our homes.

And now you want us to go back to work to an office, but ultimately, the behaviors we've now learned over the last 12 months are ingrained. And so if you try to just force the way it always used to be, you're not going to get those same results. So there's so many moving parts, but I would say, especially in the entrepreneur and small business, they have been so resilient and so dedicated

to making sure that they open back up and continue to serve their customers, if at all possible. Some weren't able to make it, but then it's what is the lesson learned and how do you, you know, set yourself up for success going forward? Wow, there's so much that you're just famous. One of the things that I've been hearing from business owners is they want their employees back in the office, right? People are vaccinated. They need to come back to work. and I'm seeing a lot on social media where companies are getting harassed basically

by people coming out publicly and saying, you can't make people go back. What does that actually look like and how can business owners encourage people to get them to come back? Listen, there is no blueprint for what we're dealing with. Like there is no answer. Nobody has the, this is the way to do it,

and we know it's going to work. Everybody's learning as we go, and depending on where you are in the United States, it's very different. I mean, Heather and I were talking about this, right? Miami is very different from Los Angeles. So even within the U.S., you have varying degrees of, you know,

going back to work and what that looks like and being more social and out at events and things like that again. So first and foremost, employees safety, health and well-being is number one. And so if you are saying come back to the office, clearly communicate what that looks like and what it doesn't look like, right?

Because you may have some employees that are like, I'm ready to go back today. You have some employees that are like, I wanna go back but I wanna go back in a hybrid model. I want to go back, but I want to go back in a hybrid model. I want to work it from home and I want to work in the office. You may have some that say, absolutely not. I don't want to go back.

So what are you going to do? The other challenges, lots of employees during this time have moved because they wanted to get out of cities or they wanted to take their fence. So now they've moved, but they want to keep working for who they're working for and now they want to back in the office. Well, I don't even live in that state anymore. I'm working with you. I didn't even think of that, Tiffany.

That is such a great observation because the entire city of New York City now lives in Miami. And I don't know how those people are going to commute. So that's part of it, right? But you also have payroll is different. You know, cost of living in Los Angeles is very different than cost of living in Montana or Idaho or whatever. And so, or even Texas, because Texas doesn't have state tax. And I mean, there's all kinds of things or and or Florida. So, you know, what do you do about pay? Like, I'm paid like I live in Los Angeles or I'm paid like I live in New York. And now I live in, you know, somewhere else.

And the cost of living is much lower. And now I'm going to live large because my pay is like I'm living in a big city. So there's all kinds of things to think about. But I think first and foremost, if you are a business owner, entrepreneur, or lead in a division of businesses, ask your employees what they want. Do they want to come back to the office? Do they want to come back in a hybrid model?

How many of your employees don't want to come back at all? And what does that look like? And then have people moved? And how are you going to handle that? And how are you going to visit customers as kind of this rules of engagement? Like how do we get back to business while we keep people safe?

And regardless of what you think about the pandemic or don't think about the pandemic, it isn't necessarily just about you, right? It's about those around you. And so that's where I think we don't know the answer and everyone's trying to find the way. But for Salesforce, we've said, May 15th, we're going to do test group of people coming back

to the office. It's a volunteer group that's been vaccinated and see if what we've put in place works. And how do we schedule? And how do we get teams together? And what does it look like? And then as we learn, we'll let more and more people back. Or we won't.

But we don't know until we start to try. So I think that's sort of the lesson here is, nobody knows the answer. You've got to find it for your own employees, for your own company. But my first piece of advice would be ask them, if you don't know the answer to how many people want to come back, want to work hybrid,

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And when you have angry employees, you will have angry revenue lines for sure to reflect that. So you are in such demand, Tiffany, for your keynote speeches, you travel all over the world literally. As you mentioned two days before the pandemic, you just gotten back from Australia for a keynote. How did that affect your business? And how do you see the speaking business changing as we move forward? Yeah, it was overnight. I mean, literally, you know, I was in Sydney, if March and of last year, I was in region for two weeks and we had something called World

Tour Sydney that was going to happen on, I think it was like March 8th and we had seven or eight thousand people coming to the Sydney Convention Center for this World Tour and literally seven days before it, and I was already in region, we canceled it and went virtual. Because starting at that first week of March, it was starting to get a little unsure of what was going to happen, and so we just can't end especially what was going on in Sydney and Asia Pacific in general.

It was a little bit of a hot spot at that moment. So we closed it, and we immediately went to a virtual event. Well, of course, everyone was in region already. So we literally went to the convention center, set it up like we were having the event on the keynote stage. There just were no chairs. There was just nobody in the audience.

And so it was a virtual event, which we were gonna do hybrid anyway, because it's what we do, but it just became virtual only. And instead of having 7,500 people, we had 80,000 people show up and watch the event. So it taught us a lot. And then, of course, over time,

we got better and better and better and what that was going to look like. So last year, I did almost double in keynotes of what I had done in 2019. But it was now it's I can do something in, you know, Europe, something in the US, and something in Sydney in the same day. So, you know, good for the audiences, but much busier for me, but I will tell you, it was really uncomfortable, it was scary, it was, is it going to be as interesting and fun, you know, and I'm going to get what I love so much about the feedback from the audience,

like all of those things, but once again, it's about honing your craft and becoming a student of what your profession is. So I watched, I don't know, 20 or 25 hours of YouTube videos to figure out how do I set up a home studio? Like, what does lighting look like? Like, what, now I know, like, I miss my AV guys. Like, well, my God.

I'll hold new respect for them. A whole new respect. But because I'm in Los Angeles, thankfully, my neighborhood, like across the street for me, is a lighting guy for movies. So I had him come over. Then on the other side of the street is like a sound guy and like he came over.

Like, so, you know, I tried to take advantage of the neighborhood. You know, it's been sometimes it's really great and sometimes it's not. But I think people are enjoying the fact that they get to see a little bit more on the personal side of us versus just being on stage and a lot more interaction. Because you can't do Q&A sort of in an audience

of four or five thousand people. You can do it, you know, a Q&A on a Zoom call. So I'd say that it was scary and challenging and I'm itchy to get back, but I also feel like there's been a lot of value out of this as well. So I feel like we're going to land in a hybrid for keynote speaking as well as events, try to figure out how they do it. It sure is going to be interesting to see how things change. Because I'll tell you we had in the class that I'm teaching, we had an expert come on on communication and she was saying that everything is going to be remaining zoom and that you know zoom will continue to be the standard platform and then you know fast forward I was at a live event two

weeks ago for entrepreneur organization and they said no everything we're doing is going live we are not doing zoom anymore people are zoomed out out. So there is so much conflicting information, depending who you speak to much like the coronavirus and the pandemic, where some people are saying everything will stay this remote way. And other people saying because we had remote for so long, it's going to be the next roaring 20s. What are your thoughts on that?

I feel like it, you know, this is kind of a cop-out answer, but I do believe it will fall somewhere in the middle. I think that you're able to reach a lot more people virtually if people can't afford to fly in and stay to hotel and pay to go to an event. But they actually really do want to go and improve their career or learn something new or, you know, whatever it might be, both on the, you know, wellness and health and well-being side as well as the business side. I've been able to attend a lot more things that I would not have been able to attend because I couldn't get there, right? Or I couldn't afford to go, or I had a conflict.

Now I can watch it on demand. So I feel like it's giving access and opportunity to far more people than if they were just in person. But then I think in the in-person side, what can you do to take advantage of the fact that having those hybrid events? So I've seen hybrid events. I did something for a company in Brazil

and they had maybe 150 people live in tables. And then there was probably 7,000 people remote on video screens, right? And so it was a hybrid of, there was someone on stage asking me questions virtually, and then people in the audience would stand up and ask me a question virtually, but I was on the big screen, so it was like, you know, I was there, but then there was kind of like, you know,

an American idol or the voice, right? Where they've got all these videos of everybody who's in the audience that isn't really physically there. But what a great experience, right? I couldn't be in Brazil. Not everybody could get to that event. You know, the event was literally 10,000 people. They normally get about 2000,

but because they opened it up virtually, they got 8,000 more people that were able to enjoy the information. It was an entrepreneur event for Latin America. So I just say that I don't think we should aspire to go back to the way that it was. In order, I think we should dig our heels in and say we wanted to stay the way that it is. In order, I think we should dig our heels in and say we want it to stay the way that it is.

I think we need to find that is there a happy medium where you can give more people access. You can make a more fun and interesting, but I think as humans, we like, we're social creatures. We like people. So, you know, part of the reason I want to get back on the road is I actually miss people in having the conversations. I mean, it's great to see you, you know, whether it's wonderful to see your beautiful face and it's great to talk to you. But at the end of the day, I wish we were sitting together having a cup of coffee.

I'll tell you, I'm the same way and I know a lot of people don't feel this way, but for me, just that energy of being able to sit in the same room with someone, I feel like there's such a stronger connection, even though we can make the best of Zoom, especially for speaking engagements, and to the point of speaking engagements,

I am constantly asked about, how do I become a better speaker? How do I get myself the speaker? You are liberally at the top of a speaking game. Can you share some of your tips and best practice with us on what makes you such a great speaker. I've always had the gift of gab. I remember like my best friend's dad, I was probably eight. We were in a car driving to the beach because I'm from Hawaii. So we were going from one side of

the island to the other side of the island to go to the beach and he literally just like stop the car turned around and said stop talking. Like you have to stop talking. I was like, okay, like I was having fun, like, tutor chatter in and having a good time. So first of all, I love the gift of gab. So that's kind of one thing. Professionally, I can tell you that it wasn't very good at the beginning. It was crazy. Actually, I saw a video recording of one of my very first like official keynotes that I was getting paid for.

And I looked back now and I'm like, oh, I just cringe when I watch it. Now, did the audience think it was as bad as I thought it was? I don't know, right? But I was no. We're always part of ourselves. You know, it was more to fly. But what I did was I started asking everybody for a video copy of my presentation. And not for public consumption, but for me to watch. At the same time, I would watch people who I really enjoyed their speaking style or their presentation or whatever it might be. So I did two things.

So whether it was Barack Obama or an Oprah Winfrey who are both masterful orators, and then you'll say, okay, who's a really good interviewer? Is it a Robin Roberts? Is it, you know, who is it? And then who, you know, has done this amazing presentation where I was in the audience. And I would watch them, but here's what I would do. I would listen and not watch.

So I would listen for the pace of their speech. Did they pause? Did they speak quietly when they were really trying to make a point? How were they vocally telling the story? Then I would watch the video and not listen. So I'd say, are they pacing on the stage? Are they fussing with their hair?

They put their hands in and out of their pockets? Like what's their mannerisms on stage? So I was really honing the craft, right? Going back to what I was saying a few minutes ago, becoming a student of your profession. Now, I don't want you to replicate the way someone speaks or the way that they were, but then you can see, wow, I actually always put my hands in my pocket. It doesn't look good because you don't see it in yourself. And so that was watching myself, watching and listening in those two scenarios, right? Watching without listening, listening without watching. And I would work on it and work on it and try new things

and like try to do a whisper when I'm standing on the edge of a stage. And did I draw them in or were people like, did it not land right? Or did I like hold my hands in the air and like, oh, I love this. Like, you know, was that too Tony Robbins? Did I, you know what I mean?

Like, and so then you found your own way of feeling comfortable on stage and what resonated. And so I still do that today. I will watch a video. I will listen to what I say. You know, I was doing stuff six or seven months ago and I realized like my voice was really loud on the recordings and I'm not shouting,

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And what were some of the strategies that they were employing that I could possibly incorporate into my talk and taking those pieces of what you liked and saw and what might work for you? One of the things that has been brought up to me over the last year, as anytime you grow and start meeting new people and get into new arena, is obviously you're gonna get different feedback

and input and I'm interested in yours. I've had people come to me and say, I think you should change your messaging. I think you should speak on a different topic. So not so much about delivery, but instead of actually what the content that I'm bringing forward. What are your thoughts on how to choose the content for your speeches? That's such a great question, because I think if someone came to me and said, you know, I want you to talk about being broken open, like your experience,

Heather, right? Like being like, oh, like all the things you experienced, if someone said to me, like, I want you to go get a keynote like that, I'd be like, okay, first of all, it's not authentic to my story, because it's not my story. And maybe I don't have a story like that. So how could I tell a story like that? If I don't have a story like that. So you have to be careful when people sort of try to push

you into a direction of a topic or content that it isn't something that's not true to who you are, that it comes off not authentic and all of those things, otherwise your audience will know it right away. But I will tell you that if you said something very quickly in your presentation and someone goes, I'd love to hear more about that little thing you said, that's really great advice because you said it. And then like, so that

happened with me, it was about like just even sharing the story about going to the gym and, you know, finding your confidence and, you know, learning through failure and all of that. And someone said, you very quickly talked about that. I created a presentation called building your confidence muscle. It was something I never would have talked about before because it was not my content lane, if you will, right? But once someone said, I really liked that, I'd like to learn more. And I have to tell you, it was probably one of the best presentations I ever gave. It was the most personal and authentic, and it wasn't business-oriented, and it wasn't stats, and you know what I mean? It wasn't like,

you know, the business lingo, it was very personal. And normally people wouldn't hear that from me. So it's like, wow, that really landed. And so how do I keep developing that story and making it something? So when people say, what can you talk about, I can talk about this, and then I can talk about, building your confidence, which worked really well for different kinds of events.

So I think that as long as it's true to you, you're passionate about it, you have a joy in talking about it, then I say give it a shot. You may realize that it's not right for you or it's maybe too personal and you're not ready to share it in that way. But I think even for someone like you, like your story, your original story that you started talking about,

open doors for all kinds of other things. So it's, how do you find that journey and find a story that people would find interesting? I love that. I love that advice. I'm someone's hearing you speak and then interested and curious to know more on topic. That is a great advice and really good insight. Okay, on the speaking topic, again, because I get asked about this all the time and I'm interested to know how you handled this again, because I get asked about this all the time. And I'm interested to know how you handled this specifically on Zoom. I did not use any slides and any presentations

I've given in the last year, just because I personally thought I don't want people disengaging. That was my biggest concern, having meetings on Zoom, speaking on Zoom, et cetera. What is your strategy on Zoom and, or in person? Do you change? Do you use slides? Do you not use slides and how do you manage that? Yeah, so my perspective, and this is my opinion,

this is not for many sort of research or someone else set it, but I believe that when you are listening to a presentation or watching a presentation, you are not totally dialed in for 40 minutes. You know what I mean? Like you're not like,'m hanging on every word Heather says or Tiffany says like, and I'm We agree with everything that we wish right we can make more money. We cannot make more time. So my goal is to make sure that when someone's done listening to my presentation that they feel like that was a good use of their time, that they don't leave and go. That was totally a waste of my time. That is more crushing to me than they thought I was a terrible presenter, or the content was for, but if they said you wasted my time, I mean, it would be crushing, right? For me personally. So I believe that people bounce between listening, watching, reading,

and something else. So if you only give them one medium, right? So even like a podcast, if it's just voice, you're just listening to the voice. And so your mind might wander away from the voice and then plug back in, right? But if you're watching a slide, you're giving someone that you're talking loosely about what's on it.

And so they may be kind of listening to you. But now you've captured their attention with what you have on the slide. And then they come back to you. Then they listen to what you've captured their attention with what you have on the slide. And then they come back to you. Then they listen to what you have to say and then you might show another slide. They're so interested in what you have to say. They're not looking at the slide,

but then you say, and then they're looking at the slide. So it's kind of like you're giving them two ways to absorb your message. So it's not possible to give them multiple, you know, that's why people put video in presentations, right? Or they put a sound bite because you're trying to mix the medium to keep people interested.

So I always worry that if it's just voice, especially on a Zoom call, it might be two slides. It doesn't need to be 50 or 30, but it could be two, just so you're sort of giving something to anchor on on the conversation so people can bounce back and forth. But that's my opinion. You know, I've had them where I have no slides So you're sort of giving something to anchor on on the conversation so people can bounce back and forth. But that's my opinion.

I've had them where I have no slides and it's a fireside chat Q&A. But for me to just present on a topic like this without Q&A, like if I were just talking about all these things, would people stay engaged for 40 minutes? Or do they want to hear the conversation, which is why podcasts do so well? Or even if you're thinking about Clubhouse now. It's just voice. It's kind of radio with Q&A. It's kind of serious exam where you can pick all the channels

and listen to what you want to. But now you can have conversations like, phone and radio show now has hit the web. But what makes it different is the questions from the audience, right? And the unique perspective and the questions that you get, that mixes up the medium. Because if it was just five people talking about stuff,

you might be less interested. So that's how I feel about the difference in medium. It doesn't mean, you know, Heather, you're not interesting enough to obviously capture the attention for the full 20, 30, 45 minutes, whatever it is. But I always feel like not everyone listens and learns the same way.

You just gave me this unbelievable epiphany that when you talked about jumping back and forth between different types of communication, whether it be video, actual static image, or just standing there speaking, you are gonna keep them interested. That just took me right back to 2019. I had the opportunity to interview Sarah Blakely and Jesse

Itzler live on stage. One of the things at the beginning when we were planning this event, we talked about, we want this to be totally different. We did not want to be boring. And so I said, let's incorporate a speed round of questions. Let's bring some video and a Sarah climbing up on this balloon that Jesse never saw before. What can you guys

bring? And they decided we're going to bring feeds from our social media. We brought so much. But people went wild. It wasn't just like you were saying, sitting with a microphone, asking the state, how did you launch spanks? It was so different.

And so that you just challenged me to start rethinking how I present especially through Zoom because I've been so hard and fast with my decision that I did not want to use slide. So thank you very much for opening my mind's back. I'm super excited now what I'm going to come up with. Well, you know, it's not about us, right? Once again, it's about who's on the other side and did they feel it was valuable? And so, you know, I'd say, take all your learnings from everything you watched on a TED talk.

It may just be an image. It may be a word. It may be, right? It doesn't have to be a lot, but the power of TED is it's short, it's concise, and it keeps you engaged, right? Because it's short, it's concise, and it keeps you engaged, right? Because it's images. And sometimes people who go up there and just talk,

which is equally impactful. But I think even if it's just a word, you know, and less is more, I unfortunately, I remain fairly consistent, whether I'm on stage or on a Zoom, of sort of the content I'm presenting, because people are looking for that content. So I can either just talk about the content, which doesn't always land, because there's

a lot of stuff going on, or I have the image that helps support what I'm saying. And I don't actually go over what's on the slide. I'm talking about something else, because I'm being mindful of the fact that they're probably bouncing between both, reading what's on the slide and listening to me. Oh my gosh, Chippyie, this is so good. So helpful. I know you're helping so many people listening right now. So when people want to find you, how do they find your podcasts?

So I have a podcast called What's Next with Tiffany Bova and Heather's been on it. So you'll have to listen. Heather's podcast first, I think it was, I don't know, I just crossed 100. So I think you were in the 60s, I think, because it's been a couple of years, I think it's been like three't know, I just crossed 100. So I think you were in the 60s, I think, because it's been a couple of years, I think it's been like three years, hasn't it?

Yeah, two years at least. Yeah. And so there's what's next with Tiffany Bova, which is on all the podcast platforms. And then you can follow me on social media, I'm really active on LinkedIn and Twitter and Instagram. And then my book, Growth IQ, it's now translated in nine languages.

I feel like she is making her way around the world without me. So, you know, I look forward to getting back on the road and joining her, but that's really probably the best ways to keep in touch. Well, Tiffany, I can't wait. First of all, we'll put all the links in the show notes below and I can't wait to actually get to see you and meet you

in real life in person. I can't wait for that day. So please keep me updated on your travel schedules as I would love to see you and meet you in real life in person. I can't wait for that day, so please keep me updated on your travel schedules as I would love to see you whenever you're going to be out on the East Coast. Excellent. Thank you for having me Heather. Thanks everybody for joining us. Thanks for tuning in guys. I hope you're enjoying this episode so far. I'm Jennifer Cohen, host the top ranking business and entrepreneur podcast, Habitson Hustle, apart the top ranking business and entrepreneur podcast, Habits and Hustle, apart the YAP media network, the number one business and self improvement podcast network.

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