When it comes to the performance area of communication, the process of repetition plays a pretty big factor in your success as a speaker or performer.
EPISODE CREDITS
Guest Starring Sage Rosenfels, Former American Football Quarterback
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)

“Front Runner” by Blue Dot Sessions is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial License. (http://freemusicarchive.org)
“Valantis” by Blue Dot Sessions is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial License. (http://freemusicarchive.org)

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

Cleats
Royalty free licensing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_psQs_5A2SY

Stadium Crowd
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FLgShtdxQ8
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 if you ask a lot of sports fans what draws them to their favorite sport, they’ll probably say it’s the action. But for some, myself included, it’s also a physical and verbal performance that draws them in.
In most sports, if you listen closely and pay attention, all of the athletes involved are all communicating in one form or another, whether it’s verbally or physically. They’re speaking to their teammates, explaining what actions they’re going to take, hopefully without the other team figuring it out first, and also expressing to the audience watching a desire to achieve something special.
Of course, while scientists aren’t competing on a literal field of play, they are, in a sense, conducting their own communicative performance in hopes of getting their own something special across to their audience.
In this episode, we’re going to get a glimpse into the sport of American football and when it’s a...