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Hosted by Dale Dixon · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 290 episodes
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The Presence Lab is a podcast for executives, founders, and senior leaders who need to communicate clearly under pressure. Host Dale Dixon, a veteran broadcaster, executive communication coach, and author of Sweating Bullets , teaches the skill underneath the skill: regulating your nervous system so everything you already know how to say can actually connect. Most communication advice focuses on what to say. The Presence Lab starts earlier, with what happens in the body before the words: pressure, physiology, and state. When your nervous system reads a board meeting as a threat, your pace accelerates, your voice thins, and the version of you who shows up is a downgrade of the one who prepared. Change the state, and the message follows. Each episode delivers named, practical tools for your next high-stakes moment: leading a board meeting, handling a media interview, delivering a keynote, navigating a difficult conversation, or showing up strong on camera. Every ep
Dale Dixon hosts The Presence Lab, a business show with 290 episodes published.
Send us Fan Mail Everyone tells you to calm down before the big moment. The research says that's the wrong instruction, and it's quietly costing you the edge you need. In the spring of 2017, Dale Dixon was pinned under a
Send us Fan Mail Get The Pause Field Guide, a free two-page companion with all three pauses, the training wheels line, and a seven-day tracker: https://daledixon.me/pause Someone asks you a hard question and you start an
Send us Fan Mail Every leader knows the moment. The reorg announcement, the roadmap cut, the budget town hall. And right before the hard sentence lands, something in us reaches for a sweetener. "But nobody's job is at ri
Send us Fan Mail Download the field guide: https://www.daledixon.me/gap Experienced leaders rarely have a clarity problem they can feel. They have one they can't. Learn why your message stops landing once you leave the r
Send us Fan Mail There is a version of you that walks into the room, and a version of you that everyone else actually experiences. The gap between them is usually something small. A sigh you didn't know you let out. An e
Send us Fan Mail You don't have six personalities under pressure. You have one switch, challenge or threat, and your body flips it before you get a vote. In this episode, Dale opens with the assessment that told him a tr
Send us Fan Mail The smartest person in the room is often the one most likely to lose it. Not because they lack expertise. Because they have so much knowledge in their head that they forget the audience cannot hear the f
Send us Fan Mail Download the free resource guide: https://www.daledixon.me/podcast I tell the story of the night my “authoritative” anchor voice turned into a Peter Jennings impression and made a normal studio feel like
Send us Fan Mail Download the free companion guide at: https://presencelab.sphereapp.com/login/ Find the free The moment a meeting gets tense, a strange thing happens to a lot of smart leaders: our pace speeds up, our br
Send us Fan Mail Download the free Audience Load Map with a free membership to The Presence Lab: https://presencelab.sphereapp.com/ In this episode of The Presence Lab, Dale Dixon explains a common mistake among capable
Send us Fan Mail Most public speaking advice focuses on content, rehearsal, and confidence. That helps, but it misses the real problem many senior leaders face in high-stakes moments: the nervous system gets first vote.
Send us Fan Mail In this first episode of The Presence Lab, Dale Dixon explains why The Game Changers is evolving into a podcast focused on executive presence, leadership communication, and what really happens when press
Send us Fan Mail My mind is a bit blown. I read about Google's newly released NotebookLM in Tim Ferriss' 5-Bullet Friday. Tim pitched it this way: "I know everyone is sick of hearing about AI, but if you haven’t heard th
Send us Fan Mail We unpack the power of having a Personal Game Plan. Discover the transformational impact of pinpointing your 'lead domino' goal to ignite momentum across all areas of your life. Let Eric's insights motiv
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Dale and Eric discuss the Gallup 2023 workplace report on employee engagement. They highlight the concerning statistics that show a majority of employees are angry, stressed, and disenga
Send us Fan Mail As leaders, we are constantly evaluating our teams, performance, and the external factors that affect our organizations. But how often do we take the time to evaluate ourselves? In this episode, we dive
Send us Fan Mail Eric and Dale explore the importance of starting strong in order to finish well in any endeavor. Eric shares his insights on what it means to truly start strong, emphasizing the value of being fully pres
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we dive deep into the topic of strategic thinking. We explore the concept of allowing the future to have a bigger influence on the present and how this mindset can lead to greater succes
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we explore the disruptive forces shaping our world and how leaders can navigate them. Eric Boles and Dale Dixon unpack the key principles of change management and the role of AI in trans
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to another episode of Game Changers, where we explore the strategies, mindsets, and actions that can truly transform our lives. In this episode, Dale and Eric Boles dive deep into the concept of
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The Presence Lab is hosted by Dale Dixon. The show is categorised under business (management) and has published 290 episodes.
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