Conversations are the ultimate intersection
Hello intersectional thinkers 👋
Greetings from Costa Rica where even iguanas chill by the pool and live that pura vida ☀️
An intersection I can’t stop thinking about
I thought I wanted to build a modern Toastmasters.
But after attending the creator workshops I was invited to with Tristan and Michael at Ultraspeaking, I realized I don't. But from the depth of my heart, I'm so glad these two, and the team they have at Ultraspeaking are doing it.
Conversations are the ultimate intersection.
It's where the rubber meets the road.
Where we leave the safety of our own mind and force ourselves to make our nebulous ideas legible to ourselves and others.
It's dangerous to be at intersections.
Thoughts are going in all directions. You might have to merge lanes. You might miss a light. Someone honks at you. Random pedestrians dash out without warning.
You might not even know where you're going.
And that chaos is frickin' beautiful to me.
To have a place that forces you to come to terms with the fact that you don't always know where you're going. But you'll figure it out anyway.
That's why I hold Da Vinci Cafés. Why I write. Make YouTube videos. Talk to friends. Strangers. Eavesdrop...
And to me, that's why you should try Ultraspeaking.
Tristan and Michael hold space to speak conversationally.
Even if you're afraid of saying something stupid. Or worry you have nothing to say. Or judge the words that don't quite represent your thoughts.
They are fully aware of the dangers of the intersection.
And they guide you through it.
They don't bumper-proof the place.
Because they know you'll be fine even if you don't know where you're going.
And they'll give you just the right prompts so you feel it too.
I told them that I loved what they are doing but took a long time to write the review because I don't yet have the words to do those feelings justice. What they're doing is beyond "speaking better". They said that's how they feel when talking about Ultraspeaking.
They are doing something at the boundary of what's possible with words.
Check it out here!
Have a great week,
Vicky
Thanks for sharing your experience and the link to the ultraspeaking folks Vicky. I keep hearing about them for participants in my own speaking work and haven't done enough exploration of their valuable materials and approach. Was just looking around now at their materials and it looks spot on. Love the human to human context being what matters.
Vicki Zhao on her most antifragile ever. When things go wrong, she ???.