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EPISODE · Feb 4, 2021 · 21 MIN

Brenden Kumarasamy: Emailing 40,000 Professors—and What He Learned

from My Favorite Mistake: Learning Without Blame in Business and Leadership · host Mark Graban

Founder of Mastertalk, based in Montreal Show notes and more: https://www.markgraban.com/mistake38 My guest for Episode #38 is Brenden Kumarasamy, and he is the founder of MasterTalk, a YouTube channel that he started to help the world master the art of public speaking. Today, we talk about his favorite mistake, when he sent 40,000 emails out to “every professor” in Canada… and that did not go well for Brenden. What does go well for him is public speaking. Brenden shares his expertise about common mistakes that people make in public speaking (hint: it relates to practice) and mistakes that people make on YouTube. You can also find him on Instagram. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/favorite-mistake/support

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In this episode of My Favorite Mistake, Brenden Kumarasamy—founder of the MasterTalk YouTube channel—shares an early marketing mistake that involved emailing tens of thousands of professors across Canada. Brenden explains what went wrong, how rejection shaped his thinking about audience-building, and why focusing on a small, engaged audience matters more than mass outreach. The conversation also covers common public speaking mistakes, how to practice presentations effectively, and why repetition—not talent—is the key to confident communication.

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