Whether you’re on stage giving a talk or explaining what you do to friends or even on a field being pursued by 11 large athletes who want nothing more than to tackle you, you will at some point fail at least once. It’s inevitable. Sage Rosenfels joins us to help how to tackle unavoidable failure when approaching your communication obstacles and how rebound effectively from those failures.
EPISODE CREDITS
Guest Starring Sage Rosenfels, a retired NFL quarterback of 12 seasons and also a football broadcaster, analyst for television, radio, and podcast
Produced & Hosted by Adam Greenfield
Executive Produced by Patrick Yurick, Instructional Designer – MIT OGE
Executive Produced by Heather Konar, Communication Director – MIT OGE
Special thanks to the following editors who provided us invaluable feedback that aided in the development of this show:
Christopher O’Keeffe, Co-Founder of Podcation
Kristy Bennet, Manager – MIT Women’s League
Jennifer Cherone, Phd Candidate – MIT Burge Laboratory
Erik Tillman, Phd, Formerly of the Kim Lab & Currently A Fellow at Vida Ventures, LLC
The Great Communicators Podcast is a part of Gradcommx. Gradcommx, targeted at enhancing research communication, is the first offering of Gradx – a professional development project created for the graduate student population at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology by the Office For Graduate Education.
MUSIC & SOUNDS
“All The Best Fakers” by Nick Jaina is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License (http://freemusicarchive.org)

“Drifting Spade” by Blue Dot Sessions is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial License.

“Dirtbike Lovers” by Blue Dot Sessions is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

“Deliberate Thought” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) is Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
EPISODE SCRIPT

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ADAM GREENFIELD
Welcome to The Great Communicators Podcast presented by The MIT Office of Graduate Education, a professional development podcast expressly designed to bring lessons from the field to our graduate student researchers.
My name is Adam Greenfield and this episode is all about the F word: Failure. Countless quotes about failure have been made throughout time, like “Failure is not an option.” This particular quote is attributed to Gene Kranz, the NASA flight director for several significant space missions.
Of course, in space, failure would be catastrophic. But here on the ground and in the universe of communication, failure is not only inevitable but also our friend in the end. It may feel bad at first but as we’re about to hear, failure can actually be an advantage when it comes to communication, if not life in general.
Our speaker in this episode had a career in a field that dealt with failure as just part of the process.

SAGE ROSENFELS

Failure is very much a part of sports. Of all sports.

ADAM GREENFIELD

That’s Sage Rosenfels, a retired NFL quarterback of 12 seasons and also a football broadcaster and analyst for television, radio, and even podcasts.

SAGE ROSENFELS