The Power of Connection
Conversations on leadership, storytelling, and staying human in a noisy world.
I'm Bobby Umar. 5x TEDx speaker, Inc Magazine Top 100 Leadership Speaker, and 2x LinkedIn Top Voice. For 25 years I've spoken on stages across 4 continents about the one thing that actually drives careers, businesses, and lives: the power of connection.
This show is where influence gets human again. Each episode gives you one big idea and something you can use right away, whether that's telling stories that move people, building a personal brand rooted in who you really are, becoming a thought leader without becoming a performer, or leading with the kind of vulnerability that builds real trust.
Expect solo teaching sessions, masterclasses with brilliant guest experts, and honest conversations about what it takes to be seen, heard, and remembered.
If you're a leader, entrepreneur, speaker, or anyone building something that depends on people trusting you, this show is for you.
New episodes weekly. Let's get into it.
Episodes
13 episodes
Why LinkedIn Comments Beat LinkedIn Posts
Digital relationships run on a longer clock than in-person ones. Several comments and a couple of messages spread over weeks, rather than one good fifteen-minute conversation at an event. Most people quit long before it works.In ...
What They Say When You're Not in the Room
A live keynote from the DYPB conference, and the clearest single statement of the ideas Bobby has built a career on.He starts in the room, pulling the leadership struggles people actually name out loud: getting others to do the w...
Speaking Is the Fastest Way to Build a Brand
Public speaking bundles networking, expertise and live content into one high-trust room, which makes it the fastest thought leadership tool there is. In this session Bobby is joined by Melanie Deziel and Lorraine K. Lee for a candid look at ...
Know Your Value (And Everyone Else Will Too)
Most people think pricing is a number problem. It isn't. It's a clarity problem, and usually a packaging problem wearing a price tag.In this session Bobby walks through the full pricing system he uses with coaches, consultants and...
What Leadership Requires Now (and What It Doesn't)
Leadership advice ages badly. What worked five, ten, twenty years ago does not automatically survive contact with the way people actually work now, and a lot of leaders are still running the old playbook without noticing.In this c...
From Substack Bestseller to TEDx Speaker
This one is a conversation I was invited into, and the host went straight at the thing most people get wrong about TEDx.We covered how a talk actually changes what happens after it: people respond to your outreach, they take your ...
How to Use AI like Claude to Amplify Your Brand
A year ago AI could do impressive things that didn't really move the needle for your brand. That changed fast, and this conversation is about what it can actually do for you now.I brought two people onto my Substack Live who use ...
My Secret to World-Class Keynotes
I've delivered a thousand keynotes and workshops across four continents, and I'll be honest about what pushed me to build this model: I've sat in audiences watching genuinely terrible talks given by people getting paid very well to give them...
Why Your Story Matters (and How to Craft Yours on Video)
You have thousands of stories in you. The problem is nobody ever taught you how to find the one that matters.This episode is a live session I ran on exactly that: how to locate your real story out of a lifetime of material, and th...
How to Land Your First TEDx Talk
Everyone asks me the same question: "Bobby, how do I actually land a TEDx talk?" So this episode is the full answer, a complete session I taught live on exactly that.I've delivered five TEDx talks and coached clients from around ...
7 Ways to Build Authority (and Which One Is Best)
There is no single path to authority. Bobby lays out seven ways to build it, and tells you which one to start with.Thought leadership is not one-size-fits-all. In this masterclass Bobby walks through the different ways to build a...