Episode #9: The Power of Speaking with Hassan Wadi

#9: The Power of Speaking with Hassan Wadi – Focusing on your talents for success

Welcome to the UK Educators Community Podcast, with your host, Syd, who's an award winning science communicator, serial entrepreneur and educational consultant.

On this episode, Syd shines the spotlight on Hassan Wadi.

Hassan discovered his talent of public-speaking after attending a course to improve his confidence for work presentations. The course changed his life . Hassan started the Youth Speaking Academy where he now teaches children to become leaders and speakers of the future.

Hassan has a lot of advice to share, including:

• Test things out to find your talent.  If Michael Jordan had only ever played football, he wouldn't have discovered his talents for Basketball!
  
  
• Focus on your strengths, rather than taking time to build upon your weaknesses, and take time to perfect them.
  
  
• Always utilise your connections to help yourself grow, but ensure you're giving back and the other party is benefitting from the collaboration as well.
    
• When you've identified your talents, think about how you're going to use them to help others.

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More about Syd.

Syd is on a mission to disrupt the Education sector by empowering Education Businesses to think differently, maximising their impact and enabling them to continue doing what they do best – being an awesome Educator!

She recognises there are many great educators out there. UK Educators Community was born to support and empower other amazing teachers and educators to scale their business, to think more about their business development and to understand how small changes in their approaches can give different results.

Serial Entrepreneur and Outstanding Woman in STEM Award Winner, Syd knows a thing or two about the Education sector. Through her business, Femtinos, Syd has worked with over 12,000 children over the last decade.  Her vision is to take her skills global, working with remote schools and training staff to instill growth mindset strategies. During lockdown, Syd has grown an online school in 6 months from 0 to 18 staff, which has delivered nearly 2000 online classes within that timeframe.