Pick a coach. Get a topic. Start talking.
Six animals, six things worth getting good at.
How a round runs
- Roll. Pick a word or a scenario, then take the topic you're dealt.
- Prep. Nothing, or half an hour. The coach decides.
- Record. Optional, on your own phone. It makes the last step honest.
- Speak. Out loud, with cues arriving mid-sentence.
- Score. Review your body language and count your filler words.
Everyday talk
The conversations you actually have. Short, unglamorous, but the ones that decide how people will remember you.
On the Spot
Axolotl
Talks before the fear arrives.
- Prep
- 0 min
- Speak
- 1 min
On the Cue
Bee
Think for a minute and not one second more.
- Prep
- 1 min
- Speak
- 1 min
Your body and your mouth do things you never chose.
Nobody decides to say “um”, and nobody decides to hide their hands. Every round works on both, with no audience and nothing uploaded.
- A body card, every roundOne physical rule dealt with the topic. Hold it for the whole minute.
- Pause where the filler was“Um” is a mouth left open. Close it and take the pause instead. Cues like “Pause here” arrive mid-sentence to make you try.
- Score the body, count the fillersTen seconds, nobody watching, and your own progress is the point.
On the podium
Longer preparation, then a minute that has to land. One gives the TED talk, one tells the truth, one brings something hardly anyone has heard of.
Keynote
Fox
Your TED talk. Ask your audience or challenge the assumption everyone believed.
- Prep
- 15 min
- Speak
- 1 min
Storytelling
Wolf
Tells it three times. Only the third one makes people stay.
- Prep
- 15 min
- Speak
- 1 min
Curiosity
Cat
Stay curious on purpose. Learn one thing new every day.
- Prep
- 15 min
- Speak
- 1 min
One story, told three times, going down.
Most people tell the safe version and wonder why nobody leaned in. Bakekok makes you tell all three, in order, one minute each.
- Safe
The version you'd tell a stranger. Tidy, true, and forgettable.
- Real
What actually happened, including the part that doesn't flatter you.
- Raw
The thing it cost you. Say the sentence you'd rather leave out.
Visualize your thoughts
Half an hour to turn an idea into something people can look at, then five minutes to walk them through it.
Presentation
Jellyfish
A picture gets there before the sentence does.
- Prep
- 30 min
- Present
- 5 min
One picture does what six bullet points never manage.
Thirty minutes with paper, a whiteboard, or slides. Then five minutes pointing at your own thinking.
- Paper
- Whiteboard
- Slides