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Stop Waiting to Feel Ready | Elliot Kay | Watch Me Go!

Stop Waiting to Feel Ready | Elliot Kay | Watch Me Go!

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 What if confidence isn't something you need before you act?What if confidence is something you build because you acted?Elliot Kay has spent almost two decades helping people communicate, speak and step onto stages.He's an international keynote speaker, author, speaker coach and the Co-Founder and CEO of The Speaker Awards & Summit.But his own journey into professional speaking started with a wonderfully simple thought.He was sitting in an audience of around 5,000 people, watching somebody speak on stage, when something in his head said:"I can do that."So he decided to find out.In this episode of Northern Quarter Voices, Elliot joins Andy Coley for a conversation about speaking, confidence, authenticity, community, ambition - and why sometimes the only way to discover what you're capable of is to start moving.They explore the difference between being a great speaker and simply performing the role of one.Elliot believes speaking can absolutely be entertaining. Humour, storytelling, energy, body language and the way we use our voice all help hold an audience.But problems begin when somebody steps onto a stage and suddenly becomes a completely different version of themselves.The best style, Elliot argues, is the one that is authentically yours.The conversation also traces Elliot's own evolution.Before speaking there was dancing. At 21, he decided he wanted to become a professional dancer and pursued it until injury changed the direction of his life.Eventually he found speaking - and something clicked.Years later, after thousands of hours on stages, Elliot found himself facing a very different challenge.Not simply delivering another polished keynote.But stripping an idea back to what actually mattered.For years, "Watch Me" had been an act of defiance.Tell Elliot he couldn't do something and the response was:Watch me.But eventually he noticed something uncomfortable.If your motivation is proving somebody else wrong, they're still influencing what you do.So "Watch Me" changed.It became less about:"Let me prove you wrong."And more about:"Let me find out."That shift sits at the heart of this conversation.Elliot argues that we often get confidence backwards.We wait until we feel ready.We wait for certainty.We wait until we believe we're the sort of person who can do the thing.But action creates evidence.Evidence builds confidence.And confidence begins changing the story we tell ourselves about who we are.Sometimes you don't need permission.You don't need a guarantee of success.You just need to go.Andy and Elliot also explore what it takes to build something bigger than yourself through The Speaker Awards & Summit.What began as an idea to recognise and support the professional speaking industry has grown into an increasingly international platform.Elliot talks about purpose-driven growth, collaboration, knowing when something needs to become bigger than its founder and why he is prepared to step aside from a title if bringing somebody else in would help the organisation reach its potential.And underneath that growth is something Elliot believes every real community depends on:Trust.Not overpromising.Not misleading people.Doing what you said you would do.And creating things because they genuinely serve the people around you.The conversation also gives us an unusual perspective on speaker coaching.Elliot describes the moment he loves most: when somebody who doesn't consider themselves a professional speaker suddenly has the breakthrough where everything clicks.The story makes sense.The message becomes clear.And they realise:"I've got this."Elliot also reflects on Manchester, the community surrounding the event that brought him to the city, his ambitions for the future and why he increasingly wants the things he builds to matter beyond his own involvement in them.And, as ever, the Red Journal ends the conversation with an unexpected question:If Elliot could borrow one quality from somebody else, what would it be?His answer?The ability to disrupt and innovate at enormous scale.But perhaps the more important revelation is contained in the postscript to the question:What if the quality you admire is already somewhere inside you?Elliot later explored the central idea behind this conversation in his talk, Action Before Identity, asking what becomes possible when we stop waiting to feel confident and start creating the evidence that confidence can grow from.Watch Elliot's talk: youtu.be/Eo16cTRgBCgNorthern Quarter Voices is a Manchester-born podcast about people, stories, ideas and the conversations that stay with us long after the microphones are switched off.Hosted by Andy Coley.Recorded by THE CLUB MCR in Manchester.Connect with Elliot:Website: elliotkay.com/ and elliotkay.me LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/elliot-kay/Instagram: @iamelliotkayFind out more about The Speaker Awards & Summit: thespeakersawards.com/Send us Fan Mail
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