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Developing A Vital Voice With Carmine Gallo – This Week’s Thinking With Mitch Joel Conversation

Episode #1039 of Thinking With Mitch Joel is now live.

This conversation with Carmine Gallo gets into something that feels more urgent with every passing week: communication may have always been one of the most valuable skills in business, but in an age of AI-generated content, algorithmic feeds, podcasts, newsletters, keynote stages, short-form video and endless digital noise, it may be becoming the skill that separates signal from sameness. Carmine has spent his career studying what makes ideas resonate. He is a communication coach, author and instructor in executive education at Harvard, and many people will know him from bestselling books like Talk Like TED, The Storyteller’s Secret, The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs and others. His latest project, Viral Voices – From TED Talks To TikTok, Persuasive Communication Skills For The Digital Age, is an audio-original experience that explores what great communicators can teach us about influence, storytelling and audience engagement in a media landscape that keeps changing shape.

What makes Carmine’s work especially relevant right now is that he does not treat communication as a soft skill.

He treats it as infrastructure. The platforms change. The formats change. The tools get faster, cheaper and more automated. But the human brain has not been redesigned by TikTok, ChatGPT or the latest content trend. We still respond to story, emotion, tension and meaning. We still remember ideas that make us feel something. We still follow the communicator who can turn information into understanding. In this conversation, Carmine and I talk about why storytelling remains one of humanity’s most powerful technologies, why attention is captured through movement and narrative, and why great communicators are made through deliberate practice rather than born fully formed. We also get into his AMP framework for improving communication: Ability, Message and Practice. Mostly, this is a conversation about what it means to have a vital voice in a world where everyone has access to powerful tools. AI can help us polish. It can help us draft. It can help us produce. But imagination, personal experience and genuine human insight may be harder to automate.

The episode is now live. Listen to my conversation with Carmine Gallo here: Developing A Vital Voice With Carmine Gallo – TWMJ #1039.

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Mitch Joel

Mitch Joel lives at the intersection of technology, business transformation and consumer culture. He is the Executive Director of Next Era Institute, a strategic intelligence platform helping leaders understand the forces reshaping business, technology, culture and society. The Institute identifies which shifts matter, explores their wider significance and translates them into strategic direction and momentum. Mitch is also a globally recognized keynote speaker. He has delivered thousands of presentations across both B2B and B2C industries to organizations including Google, Walmart, LEGO, Shopify, Microsoft, Procter & Gamble and Unilever. Strategy Magazine has called him “one of North America’s leading visionaries.” Mitch built his career by working directly inside the waves of change that reshaped modern business. He founded and built a digital marketing agency that worked with some of the world’s largest brands and was later acquired by WPP, where he served as President of a firm operating in 25 countries with almost 3,000 employees. Mitch is the bestselling author of Six Pixels of Separation and CTRL ALT Delete, and the host of Thinking With Mitch Joel, one of the longest-running business podcasts in the world. His writing and commentary appear in outlets including Harvard Business Review, Fast Company and Inc. Magazine. He is a member of Dr. Marshall Goldsmith’s 100 Coaches and was named to the Thinkers50 Radar. Mitch also hosts Groove – The No Treble Podcast, documenting the oral history of electric bass players. Mitch is also Co-Founder of ThinkersOne, a platform that enables companies to bring personalized thought leadership from world-class experts into meetings, events and off-sites in focused 15-minute bursts.