Why People Stop Listening When You Talk — And the Three Things That Make Them Start

You know what you want to say. You have the knowledge, the ideas, the experience. And something in the delivery keeps losing people before you finish the thought. Derek Borthwick has spent his career studying exactly what creates magnetic communication — and what he has found is that confidence, connection, and influence are not personality traits you either have or do not. They are skills built from three specific pillars: mindset, body language, and a simple question formula that keeps people genuinely engaged rather than politely waiting for you to finish. What he shares about how to build instant emotional rapport, the body language cues that signal real engagement versus performed attention, and how to stay completely authentic while becoming more persuasive will give you the most practical and immediately usable communication framework you have encountered. People are not tuning you out because your ideas are not good enough. They are tuning out because the signal has not been calibrated yet. This episode calibrates it. You’ll learn: How to build instant emotional rapport A simple question formula that keeps people talking Body language cues that show engagement Easy ways to calm speaking anxiety How to stay authentic while influencing 👉 More from Derek: http://www.power2mind.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/derek-borthwick/ Books: https://author.to/DerekBorthwickAuthor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices