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April 27, 2024
Why Do You Talk the Way You Do?

Do you ever wonder why you talk the way you do? I mean talk in the broadest sense, as in […]

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April 18, 2024
I Get It Now

I have a question that I always ask when I give a training to a group, or begin coaching sessions […]

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April 9, 2024
The CommFix Program

People ask me about my talk/training program CommFix quite a bit, so give me three minutes, and I’ll explain it. […]

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December 18, 2023
Starter Rhetoric Bibliography

I get pinged fairly regularly for book recommendations from people who get intrigued by my Rhetoric degree -- places they […]

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October 14, 2023
Persuasion Training for Parents

It’s fascinating how persuasion techniques -- even though they’re pretty mechanical at their foundations -- warp and shift in specific […]

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October 10, 2023
What is a Persuasion Coach?

One of the facets of Living the Unusual Life is that it elicits lots o’ questions from the world. On […]

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October 9, 2023
Dr. Dan’s Persuasion Tip #2: Quit Overestimating Logic’s Ability to Persuade

Apologies to the engineer or philosophy-type minds out there --  but when it comes to human persuasion, logic is often […]

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October 2, 2023
FYD:  Fixing Your Dysfunctions (pt. 1)

One thing I love about human communication is how vast it is. At the mega level, there are nearly eight […]

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October 1, 2023
Dr. Dan's Persuasion Tip #1:  Good Persuasion is Built Backwards

Everyone has a set of internalized techniques they prefer to use when persuading others. Logic, stories, emotions, relationship-building -- these, […]

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September 29, 2023
Rhetoric Coach

So I do Rhetoric Coaching. The response I usually get to that statement is -- “Uh, okay? I don’t really […]

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