For founders & leaders
You Can Have the Right Answer. And Yet, Send the Wrong Signal.
You can have the evidence, the proof, the credibility, the valuation logic right. Those are only ingredients.
Use them in the hallway, right before the room decides if you're the one.
Before your next pitch, board meeting, or hard conversation.
Free, for founders and leaders
The Power Scene Pause
For founders and leaders who have the deck, know the numbers, and yet walk in wondering how to have the edge. To make it go right.
This leads to a pass
You stand up. Your stomach flips. You talk too fast and say too much. Or you go flat, and the people in front of you wonder what they are there for. They check out.
This leads to a "let's talk more"
You walk in feeling like you are the right person in the right place. Your voice is steady. Your hands are welcoming. The people in front of you lean in.
What it is
The Power Scene Pause takes 5 minutes.
It's three questions that turn a pause into power before you open that door to walk in.
When it counts
Use it before your next meeting.
Three questions that tell you
How to find where your body refuses to be there with you, before your voice gives it away.
Why the pep talk in the car falls apart the moment you stand up.
The one choice to make before you enter the meeting, the one that changes what people feel as you enter and begin to speak.
"I think I'm going to throw up."
One founder said this a week before her pitch. She walked in excited. The angels picked her for the final round.
"What would Jaydene say?"
Backstage at demo day, with 250 people waiting, another founder asked himself one question.
"Before you go into the next stressful evaluative situation, configure your brain to cope the best in that situation."
Harvard psychologist Amy Cuddy, studying this exact moment, concluded the outcome depends on a person's inner state, not the pitch. (NPR, Hidden Brain)
You don't have to meditate, do a mindfulness exercise, or review your life's purpose to send your best signal. That's what the 3-step Power Scene Pause does for you.
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