Mick tells Orla how he fell into public speaking as a career. He has made a virtue out of the underdog story; according to him, he has failed at everything he ever tried, and the keynote speech he now travels the world delivering is the culmination of that. Having finally achieved his dream of representing his country, he and his team came last in the World Sudoku Championships.
But he has made quite a success of his failure: a documentary was made about his team’s trip to the World Sudoku Championships in India, he has written a book about his experiences, and he’s still capturing audiences everywhere with his self-effacing, brutally honest talk. And he’s honest in real life, too; he tells us exactly how he did it, and makes it sound easy!
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Episode 179 Ryan Donovan Senior Content Marketer at Stack Overflow
Episode 178 Sandy Dunlop, Mythology Expert & Brand Identity Consultant (Repeat)
Episode 177 Tun Shwe, VP of data and DevRel at Quix
Episode 176 Stephanie Prenderville Founder and Talent Development Director
Episode 175, Julie Hubschman, Head of Developer APIs at FIS
Episode 174, Veronica Breene, CEO and Founder of Vesta Insights
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Episode 171, Jorge Barrachina Gutiérrez, DevRel, Engineer and Developer Advocate
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