Say It Like You Mean It

Public speaking for the terrified and the overconfident

Jorge Belmonte Arriaga2 episodes2 min of audio60 playsEpisodic

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S1 · E2Sep 13, 20260:4636 plays Preview

Tell me about yourself: the interview answer that loses the job

Software tester Omar has an interview on Friday and answers the opening question with his whole CV. Jorge rebuilds it into 45 seconds and shows how to end on a question of your own.

S1 · E1Apr 22, 20260:4724 plays Members

The wedding toast, first attempt and second attempt

Listener Daniela has her sister's wedding in ten days and a speech that runs eleven minutes. Jorge cuts it to three, fixes the opening, and you hear the difference in her second take.

About the show

Say It Like You Mean It is a weekly public speaking show for two kinds of people: the ones who shake before a toast, and the ones who think they are fine and are not. Jorge Belmonte Arriaga trained as a stage actor in Guadalajara and spent fifteen years coaching executives, doctors and brides' fathers for speeches that mattered. Each 30-minute episode takes one speaking situation, a wedding toast, a job interview answer, a three-minute pitch, a eulogy, a toast in your second language, and works through it with a listener who has the real event coming up. You hear the first attempt, Jorge's coaching, and the second attempt, usually recorded the same day. Between those, short solo segments on breath, pace, pauses and what to do with your hands. No slides, no jargon, and a strict rule against the word empowering.

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