How to Be Awesome at Your Job21 Jul 2025

1077: The Six Insights of Excellent Communicators with Ruth Milligan

Ruth Milligan reveals the fundamental habits that drastically improve your speaking.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) The best way to improve at speaking—and why most don’t do it

2) The foundational communication principles for better speaking

3) How to stop saying “um” and other filler words

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— ABOUT RUTH —

RUTH MILLIGAN is the founder of Articulation, a communications training and coaching firm. In her over 35 years of wide-ranging experience, she also founded and curated TEDxColumbus, one of the longest running TEDx programs in the world. She is a proud mom, quilter, and pickleball player.

• Book: The Motivated Speaker: Six Principles to Unlock your Communication Potential

• Website: TheMotivatedSpeaker.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Study: “Threshold concepts and troublesome knowledge: Linkages to ways of thinking and practising within the disciplines” by J.H.F. Meyer and Ray Land

• Study: “The perception and passage of time during public speaking” by Efthymia Lamprou, Georgia Koupriza, and Argiro Vatakis

• Book: Several Short Sentences About Writing by Verlyn Klinkenborg

• Past episode: 001: Communicating with Inspiration and Clarity with Mawi Asgedom

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