Brook Slagle • 2024-01-14

yo, brook here!

Have you ever pitched something before? Have you tried to convince someone to buy from you, or spoke over and over to people to achieve an intended result?

Well, story time..

Ever since I was a kid, I have had a stuttering issue. I got made fun of back in school because I would stumble over my words in almost every sentence.

Each day, I had a class that I had to be pulled from in order to be one-on-one with a speech counselor. We would read out of a book and practice pronunciation, speed, and other things to help with my articulation.

And overtime I got better. But never fully remediated. Once I reached high school, those one-on-one sessions seemingly went away, but I did have to take a public speaking class, just like the rest of you probably had to. Needless to say, my nerves came back and with that came my stutter.

I would hear snickers after class, and some of my good friends would tell me that some dickheads were making fun of me.

I can’t lie, it did sting a bit, but it didn’t matter. We were all in the same boat. And quite frankly, their speeches weren’t any better than mine.

Fast-forward to college, and I had to fulfill a humanity credit requirement, so I took another speech class. I think that class was my only C in college….

At this point my stutter was quite controlled, I would almost say mitigated.

Nowadays, I speak to people and I tell them a similar story. They say that they wouldn’t have ever known! But each time I do stutter, I ALWAYS recognize it and I really wonder if those people are just being nice 🤣.

Over the last summer, I went to an event in San Francisco for people who wanted to build their own ideas. It was an IRL (in real life) event for people who graduated from Nights & Weekends from @buildspace.

It was a three-day event, and on the last day I had the opportunity of demoing my idea/project (which was my no/low-code landing page freelance offer) in a science-fair style to anyone who would listen.

This was my booth:

Here is an excerpt from my recap that I wrote for this newsletter:

​link to day 3 recap of buildspace nws4 irl-sf​

That experience was insanely informative for me.

I am a person who doesn’t do great at learning by someone telling me to do something, but rather I learn from doing the thing.

And the feedback loop from this experience was immaculate.

After each time I pitched to someone, I would make a slight modification and see how it would affect my listener's actions.

Sometimes I would fumble by adding a new word, it might cause me to stutter and lose my train of thought.

And sometimes I would restructure my pitch and it would be a straight-up disaster.

This kind of feedback loop helped me learn how to avoid my stutter and solidify my pitch all in real-time.

One of my goals for 2024 is the seek out and utilize feedback loops like these more.

I want to improve my pitching - and speaking overall.

With that said, I am thinking up a new offer and I want you to listen (read, rather lol) to my pitch!

My new offer: Web-presence creation service which I will temporarily call Keep Going Studio.

At Keep Going Studio, we build web-presence for personal brands with strategic web design, a tailored email newsletter, and a digital storefront to monetize your knowledge. With Keep Going Studio, your brand gets off-platform and into your own hands.

Keep Going Studio will build your brand along side you so you attract the right audience and leads. We take care of the technical side and provide instruction so that you never end up confused while building your digital business.

Keep Going Studio is your solution to catapult your personal brand to off-platform presence, monetization, and your freedom.

Whatcha think? Would this be helpful for you?

Let me know by replying or DM’ing me on X.

Perhaps agency-ing…

As always…

KEEP GOING

B.S.

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