The Speaking Expert: How To Speak So Everyone Hears You! Julian Treasure

Julian Treasure explains why speaking and listening are skills schools never teach despite their impact on happiness, relationships, and success. He walks through the vocal toolbox (breathing, prosody, timbre, silence), the four C's and RASA framework of listening, and how to speak with authority through agreements and validation. He shares his FLAG values (Faith, Love, Acceptance, Gratitude) and argues authenticity and storytelling are the heart of compelling communication. The conversation closes on his other passion, conscious listening as a cure for polarization, and the underappreciated power of sound and audio branding in business.

• Julian's combined TED Talks have over 100 million views, with the speaking talk alone around 40 million on YouTube.
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• His talk on listening has been seen by only one-fifth as many people as his talk on speaking, showing people prefer being heard over listening.
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• Julian suffered a pulmonary embolism that permanently reduced his lung efficiency, making him more conscious of deep breathing.
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• He names 'fixing' as one of four leeches that undermine communication, where someone refuses to let others be upset.
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• Julian and his wife Jane lost a stillborn baby, Lily, and chose to involve their daughter Holly fully rather than hide the grief.
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• Stephen reveals Social Chain grew to hundreds of millions in revenue with no outbound sales team, built almost entirely on storytelling and stage talks about his mum.
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• A supermarket study showed French music made French wine outsell German five-to-one, and German music reversed it three-to-one, all unconsciously.
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• Julian had already given four TED Talks before the famous fifth speaking talk, which made him unusually practiced.
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• The world record for static apnea (holding breath underwater) is around 28 minutes.
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• RASA stands for Receive, Appreciate, Summarize, Ask, Julian's framework for active listening.
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• Stephen opened all his talks for four years with an unfinished story about his mum hanging up the phone, resolving it only at the end.
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• Intel's sonic logo, designed by Walter Werzowa, is worth hundreds of millions of dollars in brand value.
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• The Wheaties barbershop-quartet jingle from around 1926 is considered the first use of sound in advertising.
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• Birdsong makes humans feel safe because over hundreds of thousands of years we learned that singing birds signal no predators.
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• Knowledge workers are roughly one-third as productive in open-plan offices as in quiet spaces.
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• An 83-year-old man recently completed climbing all of Scotland's Munros, over a hundred peaks above 3,000 feet.
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