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Be heard and grow, because it’s about how you say it!

Name: Be heard and grow, because it’s about how you say it!
Uploaded: 2025-06-18T01:03:27Z
Channel: Blair Singer
Description: Blair Singer recounts a morning-hike anecdote where he overhears young men saying they avoid speaking up in meetings. He uses the story to encourage…

18 Jun 2025

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Blair Singer recounts a morning-hike anecdote where he overhears young men saying they avoid speaking up in meetings. He uses the story to encourage listeners to speak up to grow professionally and as entrepreneurs, and begins giving practical tips — first: be genuinely interested and acknowledge people, preferably one-on-one.

This just happened this morning. I was on a very rigorous hike this morning, training for Kilimanjaro coming up in a couple of weeks. And as I advanced up the trail, there were two young fellows walking in front of me. They're fairly young because they had their college T shirts on, walking kind of slow, talking about work. And as I approached and passed them, I overheard just a piece of the conversation where one guy said, he says, I sit in these meetings and some of this stuff will never work. Not a prayer that it'll work, but I'm not going to be the one to speak up. I don't want to get in trouble. I smiled as I walked by, and I would say, if that's you or you've had that feeling, be the person that speaks up. If you want to advance, if you want to be an entrepreneur, if you want to grow, be the person that speaks up. It's not what you say, it's the way you say it. Give you a couple tips. Number one, be interested, genuinely interested in them. Okay? Probably best to do this privately, one on one with a person. Acknowledge them.