13 years ago I walked through the doors of the towering Miami Beach Resort Hotel, about to achieve a dream I’d worked towards for years. I was presenting my first research as an AI scientist. Nervous but excited, I was about to officially join their world.
Waiting for my session, I watched a variety of scientists, present their research, microphone in hand, to crowded rooms. Listening to this mix of veterans and newcomers like me, there was more going on than I thought.
I’d always thought science was a field where only the facts mattered. But while some sessions felt like just another presentation in a long conference, some speakers made their research sound world-changing.
The way they spoke wasn’t just holding attention, it was shaping reality. Deciding who was believed, who will be funded, and what next research would shape our world. Even in science, how you spoke held the power.
Two hours later, it was my turn. Heart pounding in my chest, I looked down from the stage with disbelief at a room full of scientists. Who was I to teach them? I was still just a university student at the time. I was petrified. But this was the most important speech of my life, and I had practiced the hell out of it.
I took a deep breath and presented my research on using machine learning to detect lung cancer, making it more affordable to diagnose patients. To my relief I didn’t freeze up or forget what to say. People listened. No one left for another session.
But peoples eyes didn’t light up like with the veterans scientists. And none of the words coming out of my mouth carried the excitement for I felt for my research. I had accomplished my dream. And I celebrated. But something gnawed at me, I knew I could have been more.
That thought was replaced by a shock as soon as I stepped off stage to talk with my audience. Away from pens and microphones, I heard things that no one dared to write down. This is where the real education was. And in every conversation, a bone chilling pattern emerged. Not one of these experts asked if AI would replace humans. Only how soon. It was as inevitable as gravity. Some spoke with cold certainty. Others laughed darkly.
But the conclusion was always the same: it was coming.
13 years later we see AI replacing jobs now at a frightening rate. The fact is AI can’t ever replace all jobs, but it doesn’t need to. The competition for the remaining positions is becoming extreme. But what can you do?
The edge you need isn’t more technical skill. It’s more visibility. More humanity.
Since that day, I’ve only found that speaking skills are even more important than I thought. Highly educated professionals don’t lack intelligence, they lack recognition. They know more than their colleagues, but can’t communicate it and their knowledge remains unseen.
I've completed multiple STEM degrees: Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Nuclear Engineering & Computer Science. But after the first one, nothing moved the needle as much as learning to speak in a way that made my knowledge impossible to ignore. This is the bottleneck between the vast amount you know and how much others see.
I learned these skills for myself, to protect my own career. But now I teach them to other intellectual professionals. People busy doing great things for our world, so have very little time to spare. I’ve distilled the thousands of dollars of training I took and years of practice down to the most effective speaking skills, with the biggest return on your time. Techniques that can free the talent trapped inside you, in days or even hours.
You see now how important speaking skills are. If you’re ready to make your expertise impossible to ignore, you’ll want to know where to start. Which technique will increase how intelligent you sound the most.
So in this next article I explain the one change so powerful that turned me from hating the sound of my own voice to actually enjoying hearing myself. In just 2 hours.
Meaning is Power
